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

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XPOQ TIL that nearly 60 percent of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish-American, including 257 Irish natives.
j6RvN TIL that in many states, possession of fentanyl test strips and other test strips is considered a felony.
4kvPw TIL an Italian singer (Adriano Celentano) released a song that was intended to sound to Italian audiences as if it was in English but was actually gibberish.
d0p8 TIL of Vexations, a piano piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, that takes roughly 18 hours to play and one man who attempted to solo it quit after 15 hours because he was hallucinating.
XEByR TIL that some trees accumulate toxic levels of heavy metals in their tissues as a form of defense