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TIL that Massachusetts is larger than nearly 70 countries.

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NXmlb 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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