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LQQOv TIL about floating gears which is a method commonly used (although not strictly) by truckers to shift gears without the use of the clutch. The aim is to match engine speed with gear speed and then they should effortlessly mesh together with only 2 fingers.
rN1Xo TIL that in 1969 Jerry West became the first and only player to win the NBA Finals MVP on a losing team as his Lakers fell to the Celtics.
awAOy TIL about Bill Richmond, a black slave who fought alongside the British during the Revolutionary War. He later moved to England where he became one of the world's most famous bare-knuckle boxers. An articulate, respected man, he married a white woman and attended George IV’s coronation.
8eb7Z TIL that Pope Pius IX kidnapped a Jewish boy from Bologna to raise him as his own kid.
beXj TIL that the origin of the term ‘Wiki’ comes from the Hawaiian word wikiwiki which means quick or informal.