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

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ExkX TIL there is a huge catfish known as the Piraiba, one of which was reported as having swallowed a human whole in the 90s.
OGN6g TIL The first president of the South American country Guyana was Arthur Chung, the first ethnically Chinese head of state of a non Asian country
rRLZM TIL that Apollo 11 Astronauts filled Custom Forms after coming back from the Moon
QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
Q1Dk TIL a master impersonator and identity thief with no medical training, imperonsated a surgeon on board a ship, read some text books and performed life saving surgery on wounded soldiers.