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TIL that Dory from "Finding Nemo" is deemed one of the most neuropsychologically accurate movie portrayals of an amnesic syndrome and the considerable memory difficulties faced daily by people with it

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W7pod TIL Nicolas Cage once searched England and the United States looking for the Holy Grail.
R5ljQ TIL There is still a WWII Landing Ship in service in the US as a car ferry. LST-510 Buncombe County was commissioned in 1944, landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and currently serves passengers between Connecticut and Long Island. It is perhaps the last D-Day ship still operating.
vlMj TIL the collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.
R5MK1 TIL Texas and California have bigger GDPs (2022) than most counties ranked by GDP. California's massive 3.6 trillion GDP and Texas's similarly massive 2.4 trillion GDP puts them at rank 4th and 6th respectively among other countries in the world.
4jX6 TIL despite being rejected as the name of a new British research vessel, Boaty McBoatface will be the name of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle on the RSS Sir David Attenborough