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TIL if Finding Nemo was to be a scientifically accurate movie, after Nemo’s mother died, his father would have turned into a female and mated with him

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6xNQ TIL the way Helsinki survived WW2. In 1944 the USSR began a massive air attack on the city to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.
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