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TIL that the early versions of the Easy-Bake Oven, a child's toy that allows children to bake small treats, used incandescent lightbulbs as their heat source. That's because these bulbs were so inefficient that only 5% of the electricity they used produced light. The rest produced heat.

Vy6p TIL a mule is not just the offspring of a donkey and a horse, but more specifically the offspring of a MALE donkey and a FEMALE horse. The other way around is much rarer: a ‘Hinny’
e0QrD TIL that the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, a militant organisation active from 1975 to 1987, attacked Turkish representatives and interests in Europe, North America and Australia, killing more than 30 people, among them more than 10 Turkish diplomats and attachés
4XWyg TIL Mao Zedong was personally struck by the loss of his own son, Mao Anqing, during the Korean war, a war he had effectively started. North Korea and China commemorated each’s support in their struggle against the United States and there is a Chinese soldiers cemetary north of Pyongyang
dQXK TIL that the average carbon footprint of a homeless person in the USA is bigger than that of the average Kyoto resident.
nWo0B TIL: The Artic Circle and Antarctica are named for Arktos (Greek for Bear) Antarctic = No Bears. While there are no polar bears in Antarctica, the "Bears" in question are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (which contains the North Star) - Neither constellation is visible from Antarctica (i.e. NoBears land)