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TIL of "Monsun Gruppe". A WW2 German submarine force operating in the Pacific and Indian ocean. It was the only theatre of war where German and Japanese forces fought together.

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4lwN TIL Sharon Stone slapped the director after seeing the Basic Instinct “leg-cross” scene for the first time. She’d removed her panties when the director told her the flash of white was ruining the shot and that nothing would show on-screen.
x5yk TIL that the first chemical weapons were the bodies of black plague victims catapulted in cities by the Mongols in 1347.
grAGL Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum
1aBJO TIL about the Taylor Oil Spill, a spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004 and is STILL ongoing today in 2019 with an estimated 300-700 barrels of oil per day spilling into the ocean. There is enough oil reserve for this to continue for 100 years if not contained
wWbM TIL As part of grief counseling after her husband died, a woman decided to look for her infant that she had given up for adoption, only to find he had died 25 years before in the Lockerbie bombing.