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TIL Commercial lobstermen make a v-notch in the tail flippers of egg-bearing female lobsters they encounter while fishing as a means to identify and protect a known breeder in the population from harvest.

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97aM TIL April Fools day in French is “Poisson d'Avril” (literally fish of April) and children try to stick a crudely drawn fish on each others back in secrecy.
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