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TIL that Pule cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world, made from donkey milk and valued at around $600 per pound.

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OGXwR TIL an Iranian man developed Dropped Head Syndrome brought on by years of substance abuse. The cause is considered an anomaly as most dropped head cases are caused by neuromuscular or genetic diseases.
1arNP TIL Indigenous Australians are the most ancient continuous civilisation on Earth, a fact backed by the first extensive study of their DNA, which dates their origins to more than 50,000 years ago. Scientists traced their linage to the DNA of modern populations in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
V8aG TIL Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US President to oppose the Spoils System of giving federal jobs to political supporters, wanting instead to pick them by merit according to an examination.
wLK06 TIL that Medieval Norse fabrics were so exquisitely preserved in Greenland that a 20th century woman would retrieve them from archaeological sites and reuse them for childrens clothes
LkgNv TIL at the Teheran Conference, Stalin proposed executing 50,000–100,000 German officers. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, joked that "maybe 49,000 would be enough". Churchill ended up storming out of the room and did not come back until Stalin claimed that the proposal was a joke indeed.