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

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VMMGZ TIL African wild dogs actually have a hunting success rate of 15.5%, not 85% like previously assumed.
Ypwpr TIL that in 1942 the US effected gas rationing; the goal was not to save on gas but to conserve the rubber used in tires to benefit the war effort.
d6gB TIL of Bluenose, a schooner from Nova Scotia built in 1921 that was undefeated in races for 17 consecutive years. At the same time she worked as a general fishing craft and at least once won competitions for largest catches of the season and similar awards.
4loa TIL 28 states in the U.S. have state beverages. Milk is the state beverage of 20.
PYrDL TIL that Github have an archive program, where they physically store almost all influential open-source projects in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a project similar to the Svalbard Seed Vault. The intention is to aid future historians and technologists for at least a 1000 years.