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TIL In 2000,an American named Jupiter was in Kinsale, Ireland, bought all the lobsters destined for someone's main course, to free them back into the sea. "Aileen was taking the lobsters out and he was saying to her, `Be gentle, be gentle - don't hurt them.' "

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