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TIL only 18 Percent Of Americans Can Drive Manual Transmission Vehicles

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QeMk TIL That after celebrating Nazi defeat during WWII, all of Moscow ran out of vodka
4law TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
4gjR TIL that a fire fighter who was receiving $75,000-a-year disability pension, got caught competing in brutal kickboxing competitions
v11AL Yes, the universe itself will eventually outpace the speed of light.
XdOj TIL that Carrie Fisher was one of Hollywood’s premiere script doctors, and fixed some of the industry’s most well known films before release