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TIL Mallows Bay, the largest ship graveyard in the Western Hemisphere, is a National Marine Sanctuary due to the reefs the shipwrecks provide.

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0vy5 TIL: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin almost died on the moon due to a faulty switch. As a result, they were unable to blast off into lunar orbit so Buzz Alrdin had to fix the issue by jamming a pen into the broken switch
6ELk8 TIL: of the tree Kangaroo, the only arboreal macropod. There are 14 species, of which just 2 can be found in Australia, the rest are indigenous to Papua
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