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TIL a man with a dream to swim with whales, hid at Seaworld after closing. He tried to swim with the killer whale Tillikum, only to be killed by him. His parents then sued Seaworld claiming that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there.

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