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TIL about Michael Romanoff, a Los Angeles restaurant owner who claimed to be a member of the Romanov Russian royal family

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NjRE TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled it to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewed back on
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