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TIL 60% (50 of 83) of the restaurants that appeared on Kitchen Nightmares have been sold or shutdown.

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YpG5Z TIL After courting the female seahorse and securing her eggs, the male seahorse carries the babies through pregnancy and delivery.
dDkgQ TIL one of the most common mutations is Polydactyly, where a person is born with one or more extra fingers, affecting 1 out of every 1000 newborns.
GAK01 TIL cats can't actually see in the dark. They just capture more light, which make their night vision about 8 times better than ours. Though in pitch black a cat won't see anything!
a8AZ9 TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain,was known as "the Playboy king"and considered the pioneer of pornographic cinema in Spain.He commissioned pornographic films considered immoral and degenerate, including sexual relationships involving Catholic priests, and his passion "women with enormous breasts"
eprgk TIL about HeroRATS, southern giant pouched rats that are trained to detect and indicate landmine locations. They are trained by non-profit APOPO. They also have rats who are trained to detect tuberculosis.