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TIL You can bake cookies, brownies, etc on a waffle iron

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d8NvK TIL that Charles Kelman, a pioneer of phacoemulsification, a modern cataract surgery method, was also a successful jazz musician, entertainer and Broadway producer. He regularly appeared on TV shows in the 70's and 80's in part to promote his surgical innovations.
OGM4a TIL that the US (22% of the UN budget), China (12.005%), Japan (8.564%) and Germany (6.090%) – together finance some 49% of the entire UN budget.
Me6GB TIL: The actual phrase is "Houston, we've had a problem"
YpZKr TIL US President Benjamin Harrison had electric lights installed in the White House, but would sleep with the lights on because he was too afraid to touch the switches.
XEbQ TIL if the spectrum of sunlight was more evenly distributed, the sky would be purple