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TIL that not only does the Mediterranean Sea have Great White sharks, but that historically they were some of the biggest every caught.

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vPv6D TIL about Lothar Kreyssig, a German judge who attempted to stop the Nazi t4 “euthanasia” program in 1940; even filing charges against a senior Nazi official for murder.
0d8gp TIL that the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.
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