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TIL Every Restaurant From Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares Has Closed.

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LkOWV TIL in 2013 a Verizon programmer was found outsourcing his work to a Chinese company for less than 20% of his salary and spending his "workday" surfing the Internet. The Chinese code was so good that the programmer was regarded as the best in his department of Verizon.
Oorxa TIL that Einstein's wife was his secret collaborator
PMOG TIL Sacha Baron Cohen, acting as his Ali G character, interviewed a British PM and offered him a ‘joint’–which the PM accepted and smoked on the spot.
E1Jew TIL that India installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas, so soldiers could phone home.
dD0N9 TIL that in 2022 there were over 151M valid US passports, up from 7.26M in 1989. Wyoming had the fewest applications in 2022 with 22k. People can apply for a book or card so may have two.