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TIL Drew Carey was once a spokesperson for A&W Canada, but was dismissed after an episode of The Drew Carey Show featured him eating McDonald’s.

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9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
XkQQ TIL that amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class
ADYZ4 TIL Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine. He then told the Turks that Greece had a submarine, so they bought two. Then he told the Russians the Turks had two submarines, so they bought two as well. None of the submarines worked.
VBArG TIL that the first video ever uploaded to YouTube was titled "Me at the zoo" and featured one of the site's co-founders, Jawed Karim, standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
E1VZp TIL about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people.