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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.

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