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TIL Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs while as an aspiring chef because he was tired of “the rages the bullying and violence” perpetrated by the head chef

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5VMbp TIL that Aaron Bank, who founded US Army Special Forces, was a real life Inglorious Basterd tasked with killing or capturing Hitler. His mission was only canceled because of how rapidly the war came to an end in Berlin.
M5e7 TIL when Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes brought a plucked chicken into Plato’s classroom, saying “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!”. After the incident, Plato added “with broad flat nails” to his definition.
GYkD4 TIL that dozens of women sent Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) provocative letters. He fell in love with a fourth-grade teacher, who he forged a "deep connection" with. Music he composed was played at her funeral, and he called her his "Lady Love".
nWBLb TIL that dogs, bears, seals and racoons all belong to the Caniformia, which is a suborder of Carnivora that consist on "dog-like" carnivorans.
Qpke TIL That president Richard Nixon pardoned a lieutenant, who gathered 70-80 Vietnamese civilians into a ditch and murdered them during the My Lai massacre, from his sentence of house arrest.