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

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jN5PX TIL: Reinhard Gehlen, The Chief of FHO, the Nazi German Army's military intelligence unit on the Eastern Front (1941–45) was recruited by the American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) immediately after the war and remained its close affiliate.
XEla8 TIL about a pilot who ejected in a thunderstorm and took 40 minutes to land
JY5Pm TIL n June 2006, at the request of PETA, Ocean Spray agreed to end its support for animal experiments. Previously, Ocean Spray was funding tests involving infecting mice with H. pylori, bacteria that cause stomach ulcers, and then feeding them cranberry juice to see if it had any positive effect.
XEEN8 When two black holes collide, the noises scientists hear are birdlike.
v1o6L TIL that when songwriter John Loudermilk's 1956 song "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" became a huge hit, the manufacturer sent him a custom 100 lb Baby Ruth candy bar, which he took to an orphanage and they cut it up with an ax to distribute to the children.