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TIL that the Italian city of Monza banned goldfish in bowls because the shape of the bowl gives the fish "a distorted sense of reality"

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9wVMQ TIL over 80,000 Moroccan men, mostly from the Rif region, fought as soldiers for Francisco Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. They would be instrumental in the rise of a fascist Spain.
BrxWk TIL that Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined for 21 days after returning from the moon to prepare for "the remote possibility that they are harboring unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth"
kmLE TIL New York City’s sewer system experienced a 6.7 million gallon hike after the series finale of M-A-S-H. It’s estimated one million citizens held it in til the ending.
PG0n TIL that a Texan gun manufacturer turned a real Glock into the Nintendo gun from ‘Duck Hunt’
Wbxd TIL A&W tried to capitalize on the success of the Quarter Pounder by introducing a 1/3 pound burger in the 1980s. Despite being larger and outperforming the Quarter Pounder in blind taste tests, the 1/3 pounder failed because consumers didn’t know that 1/3 was bigger than ¼.