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TIL that Gordon Ramsay framed his former mentor Marco Pierre White by stealing the reservation book and blaiming it on him saying “I nicked it. I blamed Marco. It was my one stroke of genius, fucking someone over without his knowing that I was the one who done it.“

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vJRR TIL after the Nazi’s occupied Warsaw, 80% of the city was destroyed and reconstruction efforts were guided by a series of 1700s cityscape paintings. It was later discovered the painter had made artistic “improvements” … so the rebuilt structures looked different (arguably better) than before.
E1gy0 TIL The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
0MbR TIL When William the Conqueror’s future wife refused to marry him (because he was illegitimate) he dragged her by her braids in the street; she then decided to marry him
RWJ7 TIL “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman was only able to get his comic green-lit because he told Image Comics that there would be a plot twist revealing that the zombie apocalypse was caused by aliens who were using the zombies to weaken humanity’s defenses. It was a lie.
8PA8 TIL that the Tappan Zee Bridge, on which 140,000 people drive daily, is so structurally unsound that New York state aides refer to it as the “hold-your-breath bridge” while other experts call it the “scariest of scaries”