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TIL that every restaurant Gordon Ramsay visited in Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares (US) closed

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v1BXK TIL Colombia was the only Latin American country to send soldiers to aide The United States in the Korean War. They sent 5,100 men in what was known as the “1st Colombian Battalion”. They were rewarded for their “exemplary performance” during Operation Nomad and Operation Thunderbolt.
69RwQ TIL Liberace once sued the Daily Mirror for an article saying he was gay, and won the biggest libel settlement at that time.
R5dQ1 TIL: There's a New Type of Glasses That Autofocus Automatically Based on What You're Looking At
gMZL7 Today I learned the "Tanks" got their name because the British during WW1 were trying to keep the new weapons a secret and hid them in crates marked "tanks", telling people that they were just water tanks that were being delivered.
OGG71 TIL that just less than a century ago, astronomers weren't sure that the universe expanded beyond the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble (for whom the Hubble telescope was named) definitively proved the universe was far more vast.