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TIL if Finding Nemo was real, when Nemo’s mum and siblings got eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female gonads and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.

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mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.
jNblp TIL that when Shell Oil started secretly manufacturing several hundred thousand gallons of JP-7 fuel for the U-2 spy plane in 1955, it depleted stocks of a petroleum byproduct usually included in the making of FLIT insecticide, causing a nationwide shortage of the product.
awEA TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.
bBa0 TIL that the total surface area of all the alveoli in your lungs is about the size of a tennis court