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TIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmission

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e04kL TIL a pilot drunkenly stole and landed planes on the streets of Manhattan twice in the 1950s. The first was to prove how quickly he could get to NYC from NJ. The second was because a bar patron didn't believe his first story.
4XMWg TIL there's an ancient whistled language that's now "spoken" by only a few people
gMnE4 TIL a 39 story building in Seoul was evacuated after tremors were felt on the top floors. Instead of an earthquake, it was found that an exercise class on the 12th floor was playing Snap!'s "The Power", which happened to match the building's resonant frequency and caused it to violently shake.
kJkwm TIL that Peterborough, ON, Canada has the highest hydraulic liftlock in the world AND was the first city in Canada to use electric streetlights
a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".