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TIL Finding Nemo actually harmed wild clownfish populations since people started buying wild-caught, pet clownfish after seeing the movie

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xVLE7 TIL During the Irish famine, about a million people died and another million emigrated, causing the Island's population to drop by about 20-25 percent.
OGE1a TIL of the General Slocum disaster in which a steamboat caught fire and sank in NYC waterways in 1904, killing 1,021 out of the 1,342 people on board.
v1o7D TIL that in June of last year, a swan living in Manchester, England died of a broken heart when teenagers threw bricks at her nest and killed all but one of her unborn cygnets and drove off her mate due to stress
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OA8a TIL that Steven Spielberg had acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell, which will be made into a live action movie that is prospected to have Scarlett Johanson as leading actress