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VMxXZ TIL The Italian State Police have a Lamborghini and have used it to transport organs
R5VLl TIL Mongolians annually eat 45.1 kg of lamb per person. In comparison, Americans consume only .5 kg per person yearly.
Xx4D TIL the last film ever rented by an official branch of the Blockbuster chain of video stores was “This is the End.”
8axDV TIL that during WWI, no foreign coaling stations were available to Germany, and its coast was blockaded. So the Germans outfitted a sailing ship as a commerce raider and disguised it as a Norwegian woodcarrier - it sailed past the British blockade and captured 15 ships over the next two years.
e0w46 TIL of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's lyricist, who wrote Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte. An ordained priest, he was banished from Venice for living in a brothel, narrowly avoided execution in the French Revolution, and wound up running a grocery store in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.