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TIL a 500lb bluefin tuna fish sold in Japan for 1.8 million dollars.

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rop4 TIL the King of Thailand’s first name is Vajiralongkorn Barommachakkrayadisonsantatiwongse Deveshrathamrongsubariban Abhikhunuprakarnmahittaladuladej Bhumibholnaresvarangkura Kittisirisomburana Savangavadhana Barommakhattiyarajakumara
MeYa7 TIL that after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine claimed that it's military-trained dolphins chose to patriotically go on strike rather than cooperate with the Russian invaders.
e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
xV7GB TIL English sweating sickness, which caused profuse sweating and sometimes led to a rapid death, remains a mystery more than five centuries later. After raging for more than 60 years, the last major outbreak of the disease in England was recorded in 1551. Then the "English sweat" simply vanished.
KOVyG TIL that the Latin phrase "Contagium vivum fluidum" (contagious living fluid) was first used to describe viruses.