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TIL Bicycles are the most efficient machine ever made (98% efficiency)

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XEgMD TIL When England played Germany in a football match in 1938, the English team gave the nazi salute when the German anthem was played.
j6d5Q TIL that of the nine muses, eight were goddesses of arts or humanities, but the ninth, Urania, was goddess of astronomy
wLenW TIL that Jerry Springer was the Mayor of Cincinnati and had to resign in 1978 upon discovery he had written two personal checks to prostitutes
Pxbg TIL that Jeremy Wade, (the guy from River Monsters) at “various times in his journey around the world, was detained as a suspected spy, caught malaria, threatened at gunpoint, survived a plane crash, and survived drowning.
j4Vn TIL: That there is a Sizable Ethnic Minority group living in Siberia who are reputed to have the “most red-headed” people in the world.