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TIL: The Windows 10 default desktop image is actually a photograph and not CGI

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GPwQ TIL that there is a form of welding where two metal plates are smashed together in an explosion to form a near perfect weld between two dissimilar metals
Y7j7x TIL 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older can't swim
LQ5M0 TIL that the Great Green Wall is an ambitious ecological project in Africa aimed at combating desertification and improving livelihoods for millions of people.
e098D TIL of Joseph Grew, the US ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to WWII, who in Jan. 1941 heard rumors in Tokyo that the Japanese were preparing a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in case of a break with the US. Grew even alerted the US State Department.
loQ6K TIL that the United States hired former Wehrmacht Chief of Staff Franz Halder to write their official history of the Eastern Front of WWII to downplay Nazi war crimes in order to make the Soviets appear as bad as possible and was even awarded by the American government for his work