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TIL that 23 out of the 45 restaurants Gordon Ramsay owns has closed

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XEvV8 TIL a whale (188 decibels) is louder than the Space shuttle launching (160 decibels).
J1g8j TIL there are still US companies that produce uranium glass items today. It is not nearly as rare as people think it is, with approximately 4.1 million pieces still in circulation. For comparison, a working Playstation 1 is rarer.
gMMBD TIL that Gandhi was extremely misogynistic
Oll1 TIL: The FTC states that your eye care provider must give you a copy of your contact lens and eyeglass prescriptions — whether or not you ask for them.
4Ze5 TIL the second Shah of Iran built a marble slide for his underground baths that was specifically designed for women in his harem to use to slide “into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.”