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TIL that Doritos were originally created by Disneyland to make use of left over tortillas

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MeX10 TIL that George Lucas was one of the camera operators at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert where a fan was stabbed to death
kOLm4 TIL Klystron (linear beam vacuum tubes used in particle accelerators) comes from the Greek verb klyzo - referring to the action of waves breaking against a shore.
e00Ak TIL Walt Whitman published a self-help series called Manly Health and Training under a pen name. It recommended beards, nude sunbathing, comfortable shoes, bathing daily in cold water, eating meat almost exclusively, plenty of fresh air, and getting up early.
QLXE TIL the US government arrested (Using Patriot Act) and detained a woman claiming to be a CIA agent, argued that she be forcibly drugged (3 drugs), because she was trying to tell Congress that CIA knowingly ignored intelligence for 9/11
VB69p TIL cells contain a protein machine, called the proteasome, which takes misfolded proteins that can't be refolded and breaks them into smaller subunits. It is part of a system called the ubiquitin–proteasome, where ubiquitins detects the misfolded proteins and sends them to the proteasome.