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TIL that, while filming an episode of a reality TV show in Doncaster prison, chef Gordon Ramsay was so impressed by the speed at which a prisoner chopped vegetables that Ramsay offered him a job at his restaurant following his release in 2007

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1ambP TIL the United Daughters of the Confederacy was responsible for the construction of many Confederate memorials, with their mission being to "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die."
p8YAZ TIL that Steven Chen said that YouTube was originally meant to be a dating site, but he, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley didn't know how to get it to work.
pYwrN TIL about the Union Army Balloon Corps, a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, hydrogen balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.
PYbOg TIL that Ivan the Terrible of Russia had a bodyguard corps that wore black clothing and rode black horses. They also had a severed dogs head attached to their saddles, using them to “sniff out” treason. Due to the lack of taxidermy, a constant supply of fresh heads was needed.
4Xv1o TIL about the Finnish unit 'Poronkusema' - The distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away