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TIL Ferrari stopped selling cars with manual transmissions in 2011.

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R7O8 TIL that on August 4, 1922, all telephone service in the United States and Canada was suspended for one minute during the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell.
0aop TIL Albert Pierrepoint, the mose efficient executioner in British history who killed over 400 people, said: “All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.” He went on to own a pub.
bvMN TIL in 1985, two men forced their way into Fran Drescher’s home. While one ransacked the house, the other raped Drescher and her friend at gunpoint. Her husband was also physically attacked, tied up, and forced to witness the entire ordeal.
K4MG TIL Islamic history has largely been indifferent of homosexuality. In 1858, homosexuality was legalised in the Ottoman Empire, who ruled much of the Sunni world. Modern rejection and criminalization of “homosexuality in Islam gained momentum through the effects of European colonialism.
Me9OK TIL of Eugene Bullard. America’s First Black fighter pilot who without the wager of a $2,000 bet would have never flown at all. Remarkably, he fought for the French, was a boxer, stevedore, jazz drummer, club manager and finally an elevator operator in NYC.