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TIL that Nazi Germany claimed an Antarctic Colony named New Swabia

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R5p89 TIL Legendary chef Jacques Pépin was a rising chef in the NYC high end restaurant scene when in 1974 he suffered a near fatal car accident with injuries so severe he had to quit daily chef work. Instead of quitting the business he instead reinvented himself as an educator, a teacher and an author.
VBEwZ TIL that John C. Reilly described his sex scene with Jennifer Aniston like this: "So I climb into the bed, she opens up the sheet and I swear, she had two pairs of sweatpants on, winter socks, a long-sleeved T-shirt. Her body is basically like a burqa from the neck down."
8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.
pY9Ep TIL Irani cafés are Iranian-style cafés in the Indian subcontinent that were originally opened by Zoroastrian Irani immigrants to British India in the 19th century. In the 1950s, there were 350 Irani cafés; today, only 25 remain.
5Ye4n TIL during Prohibition, Pabst Brewing Company stopped making beer and switched to cheese production, selling more than 8 million pounds of Pabst-ett Cheese. When Prohibition ended, the company went back to selling beer, and the cheese line was sold to Kraft.