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TIL in 2016 the first adult great white shark (an 11.5-foot male) to ever be exhibited by an aquarium died after spending just 3 days in captivity.

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rRMy4 TIL 60 years after the Nuclear Testing at Bikini Atoll, the sunken wrecks of warships are now alive with new life and Coral Reefs
N70J6 TIL that although it is only the third highest mountaintop in the world, no mountaineer has ever reached the summit of Kangchenjunga. This is because every ascent has deliberately stopped short of the peak, to honor a promise given to the local inhabitants that the top of the mountain remain intact.
5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.
OoNO1 TIL a mom woke up after a 27 year coma, and her first word was her son’s name
WkdK4 TIL: Those neck things are called gaiters?!