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TIL Chef Ramsey left one of his first big kitchen positions because he didn’t like the bullying and rages of others.

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LQ0L0 TIL Bill Hader was fired from the set of the film K-PAX because he forgot to lock the film set which resulted in two apes from the neighbouring set of Planet of the Apes walking into a K-PAX scene.
8eP78 TIL that the Hundred Acre Wood in the original Winnie-the-Pooh books isn't the name of the forest where Pooh and all his friends live. Rather, it is a specific place inside The Forest, centered on Owl's house
wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast
b9yEQ TIL that the U.S. Military listed all the songs they played for Manuel Noriega in Operation Just Cause (1989, Panama) in an after action report and the military took requests from service members on the ground in Panama
A4pg TIL that the 19th century London campaign for sanitary reform and delivering clean water was opposed by critics as “a deduction from the charms of freedom.” The Times daily argued it was preferable to “take a chance with cholera than be bullied into health.”