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TIL about Wreckhouse Wind Warnings, which are only issued for one specific area of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Z81OB TIL about Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world in 1960, which took 60 days and 21 hours to complete. They generally followed the same path used by Ferdinand Magellan in the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519.
kEkg TIL there is a small Welsh speaking region of Argentina
Knma TIL North Korea once shot down an American spy plane—killing 31 soldiers—and the USA didn’t retaliate
R57W8 TIL analysis of fish caught in giant water surges occurring immediately following the meteorite impact which caused the KPG extinction event, ending non-avian dinosaurs, show this may have happened in boreal spring; austral autumn—contributing to the death of species coming out of hibernation
OMX1 TIL In 2001, 8-year-old Jessie Arbogast was attacked by a 7-foot-long bull shark that tore off his arm, his uncle hearing the commotion grabbed the shark out of the ocean and onto shore all the while when the shark still held the Child’s dismembered arm. Surgeons later reattached the boy’s arm.