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TIL: A police Lamborghini in Italy was equipped with a refrigerator cooler for the quick transportation of donor organs from fatal accidents.

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gMy5L TIL about the Stoned Ape Theory, which suggests that the consumption of magic mushrooms by early humans is one of the factors that led to the rapid increase of the brain/cranium size.
Meng0 TIL that the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is completely empty
gMWrW TIL Operation Cottage, where the Japanese won with no troops present and the Allies suffered 313 casualties.
xEeg TIL the average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 8 days of combat in a year. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year.
LkprV TIL Nurkhon Yuldashkojayeva was one of first 23 Uzbek dancers to perform unveiled on stage in 1923. In 2 months, aged 16, she was killed by her brother in honor-killing. The statue was built in 1967 to symbolize women's freedom but destroyed after Uzbekistan's independence in 1991 as being immoral.