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

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8aoYX TIL During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS sometimes airdropped pianos onto battlefields for the American troops.
j6eLX TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.
8a56V TIL that Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, and John Taylor, all of Duran Duran are not in any way related!
4XB1w TIL when Sean Connery departed the role of James Bond, Dick Van Dyke was asked to consider taking over. When Van Dyke reminded Bond producer Albert Broccoli of his famously bad English accent from 'Mary Poppins,' Broccoli replied: "Oh, that's right—forget it!"
5MvD TIL purple is known as the colour of royalty because in ancient times the only way of producing the rare purple dye was from an extraction process of a murex snail by the Phoenicians. This process was very expensive and subsequently valued higher than gold.