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TIL that human cells contain little massage chambers that gently nudge proteins back into the correct shape after they are damaged

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bYOE TIL in Back To The Future, a refrigerator was going to be the time travel device, but the director changed his mind because he didn’t want kids climbing into refrigerators and getting stuck.
1a8VX TIL none of the Beatles knew how to read or write music. They started writing songs by modeling them after chord progressions and structures of tunes they knew. Then they began to change them to develop their own style. Paul McCartney said, "I don’t see music as dots on a page. It's in my head."
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WkJDN TIL 97% of Britain’s wildflower meadows have disappeared since the end of WW2. These meadows supported pollinating insects for food crops, helped mitigate flooding by holding on to rain water, and captured vast amounts of carbon.
yQaaM TIL that homosexuality has been legal in France since the Napoleanic era.