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TIL that there's a shipwreck right off the coast of England with an ungodly amount of bombs in the hull, and the risk of them going supernova increases every year

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yLOV TIL Kim Jong-un’s Older brother lost his favour to succeed because he was caught attempting to use a fake passport to go to Japan’s Tokyo Disneyland
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6aX TIL that the Irish Elk was the largest deer which ever lived. They would often grow to 7ft at the shoulders and they had the largest antlers of any known deer at 12ft from tip to tip
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WneX TIL that the Bermuda Land Snail was thought to have gone extinct in the 70s. In 2014, many were rediscovered in a Hamilton city alleyway. The snails had colonized the alley early on and the surrounding city shielded them from the threats that wiped out the rest of the species.