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TIL meteorological officer Mike Fraser was mauled by a great white shark off New Zealand's subantarctic Campbell Island on 24 April 1992, and was subject to a 2,000 kilometer rescue by helicopter.

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GYB4Q TIL that Saddam Hussein had a copy of the Qur’an written in blood, which is considered blasphemous in Islam. However, destroying it is not allowed under Islam either, so the book still exists and Iraqi authorities still haven’t decided what to do with it
wLeGY TIL there is a sourdough “hotel” at the Arlanda Airport in Sweden that will care for your sourdough starter while you’re away.
9YjWB TIL If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can get brain a aneurysm and die.
m1Nep TIL about the list of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
lor1N TIL that in the 1940s, Nazi Germany began printing millions of British pounds to destroy the British economy