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TIL Tennessee Aquarium has a twitter acount that sends out tweets powered by an electric eel

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Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”
9dOr TIL A long-closed car dealership, was holding onto a bunch of Brand-New 1950’s era cars with 1-2 miles on them. Some protected with plastic!
g994 TIL Aztec king Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate a day
nW4Rd TIL during a contentious White House meeting about patronage appointments for customs officers in the Northeast, Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford became so angry at President James Monroe that he began whipping his cane at the President, forcing Monroe to use fireplace tongs to defend himself
4Xjnw TIL that when things didn't go well for film directors (for a variety of reasons) they could choose to "disown" the project and simply dump the credit onto a fictional director named "Alan Smithee". "Alan Smithee" currently has over two dozen projects attached to his name on IMDb.