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TIL ~51% of the restaurants Chef Ramsay has visited on ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ have closed since his intervention.

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6EbD7 TIL Yuan Shikai was elected the first official president of the Republic of China, and was active in establishing modern industrial, judicial and educational systems as well as unifying the currency. As a young man, Yuan was also sent to Korea as supreme adviser on Korean government policies
Oov1L TIL that at the Battle of Tsushima the ratio of Russian sailors killed to Japanese was roughly 50:1
XEGvP TIL that the Seinfeld episode “The Pen”, in which Jerry and Elaine visit his parents in Florida, is the only episode that doesn’t feature Jason Alexander. After the table read, he threatened to quit the show if they ever wrote another episode without George in it again.
N77Ze TIL that alcohol is used in freezer thermometers as it has a lower freezing point than other fluids
N767b TIL a Venus flytrap can count the number of times its victims touch the hairs on its leaves. One touch does nothing, two closes the trap, three primes the trap for digestion, five triggers the production of digestive enzyme. So, victims tell the plant to start killing it and how vigorously to do so.