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TIL that eighth World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal had three fingers on his right hand

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X0L4R TIL up to 20 percent of salmons raised in fish farms are depressed or suicidal. They have been measured to have similar serotonin levels as depressed mammals and will refuse to swim around or eat until they starve to death.
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