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TIL the first mass produced electric car called "Enfield 8000" was made in a small island called Ermoupolis, Syros in Greece in 1973 by a Greek millionaire shipowener called Giannis Goulandris

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R7aMw Today i learned Bela Lugosi was buried in one of his "Dracula" costumes at the request of wife and son.
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