Italy just missed the World Cup for the third time in a row — in a tournament that expanded to 48 teams specifically so more countries could get in. The same country that invented the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, banking, the telephone, opera, and defensive football. These are 44 insane facts about Italy — 69 governments since 1946, a justice system so slow defendants die before their verdict arrives, a volcano with 750,000 people living next to it because the wine is too good to leave, and a national team that still wears the colours of a royal family abolished 80 years ago.
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