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TIL Seahorses are notoriously bad swimmers, so much so that the dwarf seahorse is considered the slowest fish in the world.

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D110Y TIL of Manga Kenkanryu, a Japanese comic series about Japanese young people who form a group critical of Korea, debating a pro-Korea Group, and humiliating them
0dLy TIL the Black Death still exists, and there are roughly 10 - 15 reported cases each year in the US
yVn48 TIL The U.S. offered land to exiled French Bonapartists in Alabama to grow grapes and olives, but the colony failed due to the settlers' lack of farming skills and unsuitable soil.
OYea TIL the first serial killer in Jamica lived in a castle and hunted people for sport.
l794G TIL that in the 1990s, the CIA developed a robotic catfish named "Charlie." This unmanned underwater vehicle was designed to collect water samples covertly, controlled via a line-of-sight radio handset. The details of its missions remain classified.