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TIL If “Finding Nemo” happened in real life, when Nemo’s mom and siblings were eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female organs and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.

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J1Mlj TIL: Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. WW I veteran, died in 2011. He was 110. At 16, he lied about his age and enlisted in 1917. Later, when WW II began, he was working for a company in Manilla. Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941 and Buckles was captured and imprisoned for over 3 years.
nNM9 TIL the person who constantly bullied me and ruined my elementary school life has written a book about bullying.
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