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TIL that Drew Carey can sometimes be seen on the sidelines of U.S. National Team soccer games as a press photographer. His images are sold via wire services under the pseudonym "Brooks Parkenridge."

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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
mO4o TIL That Bill Nye the Science Guy was a student of Carl Sagan at Cornell
rRBbo TIL that a fully-preserved dinosaur tail, still covered in delicate feathers, was found. It is 99 million years old.
0PKj TIL there was an attempted coup d'état in Japan the night before they surrendered to allies during WWII, in an attempt to stop the surrender and continue fighting.