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TIL There is an Electric Eel at the Tennessee Aquarium that is hooked up to a computer which sends Tweets from its account every time the Eel’s discharge reaches the electricity threshold. Most of Miguel Wattson’s tweets are onomatopoetic sounds related to electricity.

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