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TIL - Finding Nemo is the best-selling DVD of all time.

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W74y8 TIL The song "Don't You Forget About Me" was offered to several artists, who passed, including Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry. Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde loved it, but was pregnant at the time, so she convinced then husband Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, who had also passed on it, to reconsider.
78ZeM TIL Pikachurin is a protein discovered in 2008. It was named after the Pokemon Pikachu, and plays a role in the interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.
OG0yX TIL that it is estimated that 117 billion people have been born since Modern Homo sapiens first appeared around 200,000 years ago.
LQmy9 TIL that the last living person who was at the Alamo during the battle died less than a month before the end of World War 1. He was not even a year old when the battle occurred.
wo0v7 TIL it is believed 2,000 black people were killed in concentration camps during World War II.