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TIL that Spaghetti is a plural for Spaghetto.

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6ExA7 TIL 2095 billionaires own close to 10% of the world's GDP
rN1n1 TIL on our billions years old planet, trees have only been around for 400M years. For the first 40M bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, and animals had NFI what to do with them. So trees just got old and fell over. 40M years of perfectly fine baseball bats and chesterfields just laying around the place.
NXnb6 TIL about Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a Roman charioteer. He is considered the highest-paid athlete of all time. It has been calculated that Diocles earned 35,863,120 sesterces during his career, comparable to today's 15 billion USD
Zp5JD TIL Alert, Canada is the northernmost continuously inhabited place on Earth and 817 km from the North Pole. The Canadian Armed Forces use Alert for its strategic importance and its potential for intercepting radio signals
GQ57 TIL that one of the earliest surviving pornographic films, called El Satario, features three young women bathing in a river having sex with each other, and then the devil appears and one of the women has oral sex with the devil.