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Looks like the two fans I tried in place were also bad... I put one from a 2012 15" retina and it spins. I then tried the left side fan into the right side and it also spins (and the 15" retina and the left side fan also spin together.)
Looks like it is just a bad fan... not sure how that happens, but oh well. Ordered a new fan.