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Interesting Place - Rome

Police in Rome, Italy, have seized €3m (£2.3m)  of marijuana in a drugs raid in the city.

(Now 340kg (750lb) of marijuana is in itself interesting, but what makes this story unique is the plants were being grown  in an old underground Metro tunnel that was built beneath Rome during the fascist era of Benito Mussolini. The tunnel, which is 1 km (0.6 miles) long was officially being used as a mushroom farm.)

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