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TIL there is a species of anglerfish that mostly swims upside down

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J1ZM1 TIL after Francis Ford Coppola put up over $100 million of his own money to fund his movie Megalopolis, it ended up making just $14.4 million at the box-office.
pYwQ4 TIL Karl Marx had four daughters, all of whom were named Jenny after their mother, Jenny von Westphalen.
RDr9 TIL a russian fighterpilot crash landed in Norway in 1944 after having his leg blown off during an air battle. He bled to death. They found him three years later sitting in his plane with a cigarette in his mouth.
B88K TIL that in 2013 a Manhattan dad was deemed “wholly incapable” of parenting his 4-year-old son because he refused to take him to McDonald’s.
J1NYV TIL about Anton syndrome is a rare condition in which an individual becomes blind but is unaware of this fact. This is because the brain generates visual images that are perceived as real, leading the individual to believe that they can see.