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TIL Bill Nye once entered a Steve Martin look-alike contest and won.

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eppb5 TIL that the highest-ranking US military officer of Vietnamese descent is the only survivor of a family whose killer was photographed being shot in the head in a Pulitzer-winning photograph.
loydB TIL that a moment is a medieval metric of time and is 90 seconds long
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