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TIL 82% of Americans can't drive a manual transmission car

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kOZbd TIL that in some Arabic-speaking countries, the missionary position is called "the manner of serpents."
0dQkL TIL: Brandolini's law aka the Bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
peJA TIL There is an Oregon man who literally turned blue from drinking 10 oz of silver every day.
DeGD TIL Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard University and was unable to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences because his role as a ‘popularizer’ of science had caused other scientists to dislike him, claiming he wasn’t a 'pure’ scientist.
16vDd TIL that ducks and ostriches produce erections by pumping lymphatic fluid (rather than blood) into their penis