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TIL Italians eat so much bread and pasta that the government will give Celiacs (gluten intolerant) a stipend of up to €140 to spend on Gluten free products.

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b6OVQ TIL: The one-shot manga "Shiroi Heya no Futari" (1971) by Ryoko Yamagishi is considered to be the first yuri (girls' love) manga.
9Yo7m TIL about mud cookies that made from dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. People eat them as a way to stave off starvation in one of the poorest country on Earth, Haiti.
N7WQ TIL that when Rock Band was in its developing stages, Harmonix codenamed it Rock Band: Nickelback “on the theory that the name of the quintessentially generic modern rock group would be enough to deflect all curiosity.”
mxBpp TIL renowned director Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Rear Window) stated one of his favorite movies was Burt Reynolds' Smokey and the Bandit. Hitchcock's daughter confirmed this.
Y7eyx TIL the Blanket octopus has one of the most extreme difference in sizes between sexes known in any animal near its size or larger. Females may reach 2 m (6.6 ft) in length, whereas the males are 2.4 cm (1 inch). To mate, males wrench off specialised arms full of sperm, which are kept by the female