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TIL 80% of cars sold in Europe have manual transmissions but only 3% in the US

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naW9 TIL that Martin Lawrence is still banned from SNL almost 20 years later - here’s the monologue transcript.
wa6o TIL that losing an hour of sleep when daylight savings puts the clocks forward causes a 25% increase in heart attacks on the following Monday. They reduce by 21% when clocks go back.
oBbZA TIL that, in July 2020, marine biologists studying the seafloor in the South Pacific Gyre ("the deadest spot in the ocean") discovered aerobic microorganisms in "quasi-suspended animation." At 101.5 million years old, they are the longest-living life forms ever found.
X4QD TIL Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown, and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue
095M TIL due to the decline in fertility that tends to accompany wealth, human population is expected to stabilize at near 9 billion by 2050.