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TIL the Earth may not be flat but the Solar System is. Aftering seeing a graphic of an asteroid's relative distance to Earth I thought, this must be misleading, as we are not on one plane in space. But we basically are, with margins in single digit degrees.

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R7ab8 TIL In 2001, a seven foot bull shark bit off a boy’s arm. His uncle not only saved the boy, but dived in after the shark, wrestled it to shore where the shark was shot, retrieved the boy’s arm and it was sewn back on in the hospital.
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