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TIL a dead 13-foot shark, floating in a tank of formaldehyde, was found by a YouTuber while breaking into an abandoned wildlife park in Australia.

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VMMm0 TIL Two-Thirds of Americans support a national gun registry.
4LKo TIL that Norwegian oil company Statoil is selling one of their oil platforms. “Well kept 20 bedroom platform for sale. Panorama sea view and plenty of room for a helicopter.”
OoYAe TIL Molotov cocktail was coined by the Finns. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed that bombs used on the Finnish was humanitarian aid, so Finns started calling them "Molotov bread baskets". When using incendiaries to counter Soviet tanks, they called them "a drink to go with the food"
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