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

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EgZ8x TIL that baleen whales have two blowholes but toothed whales only have one.
bDW0 TIL Nolan Ryan is the only pitcher in MLB history to have struck out seven pairs of fathers and sons.
Z8GMY TIL McDonalds lost their Big Mac trademark in the European Union after a legal battle with the Supermac's fast food chain in Ireland.
LQOVV TIL: Some Japanese families without a son will adopt a Mukoyōshi or adopted son-in-law. They marry a daughter, run the family business, and take their wives surname. Nintendo, Kikkoman, and Toyota, are owned by families that have adopted this practice.
9wY7B TIL about Han Purple, a synthetic pigment used in ancient China, incl on the Terracotta Army. Use stopped in ~220 AD and it was rediscovered in 1990s. It was found that in very low temperatures and high pressure, it "loses" a dimension, acts as a 2D material, and is useful in quantum computing.