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TIL That to date, 52 out of the 77 restaurants featured on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ have closed, many before the episodes they were on even aired. One owner even committed suicide due to his failing business.

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m1JxE TIL about Vis-O-Matic the pre-internet online shopping service of the 1950s
yap TIL Rick Rescorla moved from Britain to fight in Vietnam, was a hero at Ia Drang, and saved all but 7 of his 2,700 employs by running up and down 20 flights of stairs with a bull horn during the 9/11 terror attacks… which took his life.
QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.
Vo5Z TIL Sigmund Freud, who revolutionized the practice of psychiatry with his theories of the unconscious, postulated that depression comes from anger turned against oneself.
v1ZoK TIL the war game "The Campaign for North Africa" is infamous for absurd it's depth and complexity, where campaigns take and estimated 1500 hours to complete and Italian troops require more water per turn that other troops in order to boil their rationed pasta.