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TIL Famed voice actor Frank Welker (Optimus Prime, et al.) was credited with "Parrot Sounds (voice)" in the 1999 shark movie Deep Blue Sea.

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yQwAv TIL that the owner of Segway Inc. died by riding a Segway off a cliff.
e9x4 TIL That NY City used to use hollowed out trees as water mains in the early 19th Century. A working example was still connected to the city water lines as late as 2006
YaQW TIL that the only word in English that has the vowels a, e, i, o, u, and y in consecutive order is “facetiously.”
wLWAM TIL how maglev trains work from a Professor in 1975. He shows how to overcome the flipping magnets problem and how to move the train along with magnetism.
b9pjZ TIL about Yasuke, a former Mozambique Slave turned Samurai during the Japanese Hegemony and unification wars. He was well respected by the Japanese and was considered to have the strength of ten men, and was one Oda Nobunaga's most trusted warriors.