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TIL that Australia has opened an underwater museum inside the Great Barrier Reef

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R08 TIL in 2003 an American soldier in Iraq was shot point blank in the face with a 9mm; he caught the bullet in his teeth and captured the man who shot him.
MkyA TIL that rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 80s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
yQxWX TIL In the original version of Tenacious D's "Tribute", the "Greatest Song In The World" consists mainly of Stairway to Heaven.
rkey TIL that hundreds of thousands of feral goats were exterminated using helicopters and rifles on the Galápagos Islands to protect the local Tortoise population.
yVYov TIL that three teams were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose their matches to secure more favorable placements in the knockout stages.