- Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
- In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another.
- Canned herring were called "sardines" because the canning process was first developed in Sardinia.
- The average Italian consumes 26 gallons of wine a year.
- Every day about 3,000 Euro are thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome and collected at night to be given to a
charitable organization.
- The very word trivia is Italian - from the plural of the Latin world trivium - meaning the intersection of
three roads or some unimportant place.
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