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TIL Batfish is a species of fish that doesn't swim. They instead use their pec muscles to "walk" along the ocean floor.

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6WLW TIL Wal-Mart once pulled Midge, a doll in the Barbie line, from the shelves due to concerns she was pregnant with no wedding ring and it would promote teen pregnancy.
4X6ER TIL in Tokyo there is a huge arcade made to look like a dystopian cyberpunk city.
yQaWa TIL Herge published his comic book 'The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon' in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong became the first man to land on the Moon
Onk6 TIL that despite drawing over 11 million visitors, the 1982 World’s Fair (made famous for it’s Sunsphere and by The Simpsons) only made a profit of $57
dle7 TIL the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.