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TIL that Clownfish change gender upon losing the female of the school, meaning that throughout the entire movie, Nemo’s dad was turning into a female…

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YOdP TIL of Lisa Montgomery. A woman that strangled a pregnant woman, cut the baby from her womb, then proceeded to show the baby off as her own to her friends and family.
9v4m TIL Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia because Virginia’s only other college at the time, College of William & Mary, was too religious and did not have enough science courses.
mx88v TIL that in 2014 Minister Charles R. Moore publicly committed suicide through self-immolation in Grand Saline, Texas in order protest the county's long history of racial discrimination. Local police chief responded by saying that racism is "not a problem at all here."
oBJgR TIL the shrimp cocktail was invented in a bar on Boston Harbor in 1941. It was first prepared as a drunken “let’s put gross shit together in a glass and dare people to drink it” concoction with shrimp, ketchup, and vodka, but it proved to be delicious while hammered.
R77e8 TIL that while on death row at San Quintin, Stanley ‘Tookie” Williams was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for children’s books he wrote while in prison.