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TIL manual gearboxes are lighter, cheaper, give better performance and fuel efficiency. They are the most common type everywhere besides North America and Australia.

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NXn68 TIL domestic cats are one of the most prolific and deadly hunters on the planet. its estimated cats kill 2.4 billion birds per year in the US alone and in Australia they have helped drive at least 20 native species to extinction. They are such good hunters they are considered an invasive species.
nWJ9r TIL that until September 2021, Family Guy's Cleveland Brown was voiced by Mike Henry. He chose to step down from the role in 2020 and was replaced by Arif Zahir
R7Lr8 TIL Kevin Tunell killed Susan Herzog in a DUI. Part of his sentence was to send a check every week to Susan's parents. The check would be made out to Susan for $1 and he would send it every Friday for 18 years. Susan, was 18 when she was killed, on a Friday. In all, he would have to pay $936.
a8719 TIL Bhutan was the first country to make smoking illegal in public places in 2005
d8wbj TIL that whenever Queen Elizabeth is talking with someone, she uses her handbag to signal coded messages to her staff to indicate how the conversation is going.