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TIL German parents not allowed to name their child Lucifer

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KQGQ TIL Lamborghini Gallardo was used by Italian police to transport body organs for transplantation.
KYE9E TIL that the first TV show to be recorded in color was the "Betty Feezor Show" in 1958. Betty's home craft and cooking show was on CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte from 1953 to 1977.
4rNo TIL the Bureau of Indian Affairs still sends bolts of cloth every year to New York Indian tribes as part of the debt owed from the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794
E1Rww TIL that Thomas Young proved that light is a wave, described elasticity, capillary action, explained how our eyes focus and see color, compared the grammar and vocabulary of 400 languages, deciphered hieroglyphs and contributed to music theory. He is called "The Last Man Who Knew Everything".
E1NQW TIL in New Zealand in 1959, only 21 people out of their entire population of 2.3 million were officially unemployed