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TIL a new SNES game will be released in 2013

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e0LD4 TIL that in WW2, the Italian submarine “Leonardo Da Vinci” torpedoed the troopship “Empress of Canada”, while on a return journey. The ship sank and half of the resulting 392 deaths were Italian prisoners of war.
8aPWK TIL Dionysius the Elder, Greek ruler of ancient Syracuse ran up massive debts; so Dionysius ordered all citizens (under penalty of death) to turn in all their money (drachmas) Once all the drachmas were collected he simply re-stamped each one drachma coin as two drachmas and paid his debt
60d8 TIL in 1980, the first 1 GB hard drive cost $40,000 and weighed over 500 pounds.
4k9Eo TIL One of Portugal's best-known writers was a mechanic who hadn't even been to school.
EXgW TIL having a gun in your house no matter the way it is stored does not decrease your chance of homicide. Instead it increases the chances of homicide by 300% and suicide by 500%.