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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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ADeMB TIL about Operation Mindf**k: a group of 1960s pranksters who wanted to show how ridiculous conspiracy theories were by placing stories in the media attributing all calamities and conspiracies in the world to an 18th century Bavarian society called the Illuminati.
vP0QR TIL the Star-Spangled Banner has an unofficial fifth verse, written by the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes at the beginning of the Civil War. Unlike the familiar verse, it's not about a foreign enemy. It's about the foe from within.
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