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TIL Gordon Ramsay opened his third 'Hell's Kitchen' restaurant in 2020 in a Lake Tahoe hotel/casino and 2 weeks before it opened people had already made more than 12,000 reservations.

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EE60 TIL that the German army has over a thousand troops in the US, with a headquarters outside Washington DC
jaKa TIL that cigarette butts are the most littered item at the world, with an estimated 4.5 trillion littered annually. Each butt can take 5 to 400 years to completely break down.
obpo TIL: Hatra, the capital of the “first Arab Empire” known as the Kingdom of Araba (in modern day Iraq) was one of the most diverse cities in the ancient world. It had temples (pantheons) to five major religions: Greek, Mesopotamian, Caananite, Aramean, & Arabian.
XEV6E TIL that when German intelligence discovered the phrase "Killroy was here" during World War 2 Hitler believed Killroy was the name of a high-level Allied spy
Z8k6p TIL of the Asch conformity experiments, which demonstrated how social pressure can change even our perception of seemingly objective facts.