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TIL that the Cizeta-Moroder V16T supercar was so named due to one of the car's creators, legendary music producer and composer Giorgio Moroder. The name was later shortened to Cizeta after Moroder's departure following a dispute with the company's founder, former Lamborghini engineer Claudio Zampoli

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jemn TIL - in Ancient Rome when giving testimony in court, One would have to swear on their balls.
P1V1e TIL that when local troops, hired by communist Albania, attempted to capture Prince Leka — the exiled Crown Prince of Albania — while he was in Gabon, he dissuaded them by appearing at the door of the plane holding a bazooka.
XrG8 TIL in the 1950s, a married duo had a live BBC radio program where the husband would seemingly transmit telepathic messages from the studio to his wife who was in a different location each episode (underwater, in a plane, etc) and would then repeat it back. Even now, it is unknown how this was done.
yQZ8w TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.
QJQdp TIL about "The Whole Shabangs" potato chips, available almost exclusively from US Prison system commissaries. Ex-cons consider these chips to be the best chip out there, and a high-point of their incarceration. Many end up dismayed and disappointed at their lack of availability "on the outside".