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TIL Lamborghini provides two Gallardos to the Italian state police, which uses the cars for delivering organ transplants to patients.

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0dEG1 TIL There are two moons in the solar system that have clouds, Saturn's moon Titan and Neptune's moon Triton.
epl1g TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.
rNdWy Today I learned that there was an ancient version of Suez Canal, called "Canal of the Pharaohs". The canal was mostly in use untill Alid revolt of 762–763, when Hasanids revolted against Abbasid Caliphate.
d8oMB TIL that the famous biblical saying "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle..." is a translation error passed down for centuries: the choice of "camel" was a Greek misspelling and kamêlos (camel) was written in place of kamilos, meaning "rope" or "cable".
GYdZG TIL in 2018, United Airlines switched to lighter paper for their inflight magazines, it saved 1oz per copy which after 1 year saved 170,000 gallons (643,000 L) of fuel worth $290,000.