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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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mW5R TIL that it took an average of 52,000 bullets to make a single kill by regular infantry units during the Vietnam War.
EErw TIL when she was the First Lady, Barbara Bush called the Simpsons “the dumbest thing I had ever seen”. She received letter from Marge Simpson which moved her so much, she wrote back apologizing.
LkX0V TIL the dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania and New Zealand on his first pacific voyage while missing the entire continent of Australia.
Ook4Y TIL Alice In Chains began recording “Dirt” in LA on April 29, 1992, the first day of the riots. They broke to Joshua Tree to process the experience and continue writing before returning to finish the album.
RAZl TIL The “Black Death” plague (Yersinia pestis) still exists in the US (1–17 reported cases per year).