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TIL that Finding Nemo, a movie about the suffering of a captured clownfish, ironically caused home aquarium demand for them to triple.

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R57N4 TIL that there were Italian POWs in Riverside, California in 1942
LJjm TIL In WW2, The Allies estimated German average monthly tank production using statistical analysis of their serial numbers. They were off by one.
VBj8D TIL that "Edmond de Belamy," a portrait generated by AI, sold for $432,500 in 2018. It was created using an algorithm trained on 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 19th centuries, and the "artist" signed it with a mathematical formula.
8aNXZ TIL within the first 5 years of the "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" campaign (begun in 1983), the U.S experienced its lowest number of alcohol-related fatalities since the DOT began keeping records, and more than 68% of Americans reported trying to prevent someone from driving after drinking
695OZ TIL Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism, played piano in a Baptist church as a young boy.