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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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x6bmD TIL that George Dantzig in 1939, misunderstanding as his Homework, solved two of the most famous unsolved problems in Statistics.
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