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TIL There's a town in Portugal famous for phallic pastries

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gMxR4 TIL thousands of Volkswagen diesel cars are parked in limbo in the California desert. VW spent $7.4 billion buying back 335,000 cars due to Diesel-gate and parked them in 37 remote storage facilities around the U.S.
Z87xa TIL that during the making of “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which actually belonged to Tarantino, was stolen during production. In 2013, he was reunited with it when a sheriff spotted two men stripping it in the Oakland area, ran the VIN, and found it belonged to the director.
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