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TIL I learned there is a sequel to The Big Lebowski starring "The Jesus"

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mxjno TIL German u-boat U-507 almost single handily drew Brazil into WWII. Patrolling the south Atlantic in 1942, she torpedoed and sank multiple Brazilian passenger ships - between August 16-17, five ships were sunk, taking over 600 civilians with them. Brazil would declare war on Germany on August 22
0Pxv TIL in 2012, the parents of a teenage girl found out that their daughter was pregnant because Target’s internal computers had tracked their daughter’s purchases, concluded that she was pregnant and began sending her coupons geared towards pregnancy items
GY8A7 TIL about The Lainz Angels of Death. Four nurses aides from Lainz, Vienna who confessed to murdering 49 patients over 6 years (could have been as many as 200). All were convicted in 1991 and have been subsequently released.
BrGAe TIL North Korean Kim Jong Il leader visited Pudong, the hotbed of China's information industry, saying he wanted to gain and to learn from China. Chinese President Jiang Zemin also travelled to Pyongyang for three days to build friendship with North Korea
e0GwL TIL that James McAvoy was so addicted to playing Oblivion that it affected his work on the movie Becoming Jane, so he put the game disc on a gas stove and watched it burn and melt