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TIL that the creator of "Jaws" dedicated the last decade of his life to preserving sharks after witnessing horrific abuse (and to make up for the anti-shark hysteria the movie caused)

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kJ0r1 TIL there has been only one spacewalk with more than two people, which was on the STS-49 space shuttle mission. Astronauts Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed an unscheduled spacewalk in order to capture a faulty satellite after several previous two-man attempts had failed.
XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
7MYP TIL Seals have been known to have sex with penguins
0ZX1 TIL execution by mortar shell is a thing in North Korea
W7vxA TIL that researchers raised a lung-bearing fish called the bichir entirely on land in order to study how its behavior and anatomy adapts, hoping to better understand the steps which led to the evolution of tetrapods