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

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QJLGa TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested more than any other person in Hollywood (66 times for civil disobedience.)
5GGk TIL: The first woman was accepted to medical school by accident. The issue was up to vote by the male students, with the stipulation that if one student objected, she would be rejected. They thought it was so ludicrous that they believed it to be a joke, and voted unanimously to accept her.
nW6D7 TIL that Leonard Nemoy directed "Three Men and A Baby".
0mDA TIL Wim Hof, nicknamed the Iceman, can immerse himself in ice and keep his core temperature the same. He ran a full marathon above the polar circle in −20 °C, in nothing but shorts.
6EaXY TIL Ringo Star and Carlin did voice overs for years on Thomas the Tank Engine