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TIL "spaghetto" is the singular of "spaghetti."

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QNLlk TIL that Sir Winston Churchill was such a big lover of the Italian blue cheese Gorgonzola that during WW2 he forbid British troops to bomb the city of Gorgonzola and its dairies.
5YlBn TIL the owners of the Titanic demanded huge sums of money at the time to return the bodies of ship's crew to their grieving families.
1Ry4 TIL: Cereals, including rice, have a higher carbon impact than meat.
9YvW7 TIL Australia once had a MATCH brand called "Dickheads” with the tagline: "We would have to be complete dickheads to let most of our famous Australian brands be taken over by foreign companies. Brands such as Vegemite, Aeroplane Jelly, Arnott's, Speedo and Redhead Matches are in overseas hands.”
M7DQ7 TIL about Pleistocene Park in Siberia where scientists are trying to recreate the ecosystem of the last glacial period (a long time ago)