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

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VM4rD TIL that when billionaire Peter Brant asked Italian artist Maurizio Cattellan to do a portrait of his wife, the 90s supermodel Stephanie Seymour, he made a hunting trophy of her to hang on his wall.
9YNjp TIL that Greeks and Romans polluted the air so much, traces of their lead pollution can be seen in ice caps as far away as Greenland
kOv1e TIL When Britain invaded Iceland during WWII, they brought 4 battleships and 746 Royal Marines vs Iceland's 60 police officers and 300 untrained reservists. There was only one casualty, a Royal Marine who committed suicide en route to Iceland.
PYMvn Scientists have trained a spider named Kim to jump on command.
4jOo TIL a Cleveland woman was ordered by a judge to stand on a corner during rush hour on two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus”, after notoriously disregarding the law and laughing at the charges.