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TIL that The Fat Duck, a Michellin three-star restaurant in England, employs forty-two chefs. One for each customer.

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9w7kG TIL that during WWII, U.S. Navy cryptanalysts, led by Joseph Rochefort, tricked Japan into revealing their plans to attack Midway. By sending a fake uncoded message about a water shortage, they confirmed "AF" was Midway, allowing the U.S. to prepare and win the battle.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
j6N9p TIL Tucson is the longest continuously inhabited region in the US stretching back for at least 4,000 years
1Mm4 TIL Disney World is on the 2nd Floor. The Ground Floor is an above-ground system of tunnels that moves employees around the park.
1aGZD TIL: South Korea has the fastest global average internet connection speed while the United States ranks 10th.