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TIL that despite the 20+ page menu w/250+ items, the Cheesecake Factory cooks everything on the spot (except for cheesecakes and baked desserts) by employing a sheer number of kitchen stations and line cooks and data analytics to predict demand, resulting in nearly 98% food efficiency

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nWp4B TIL while abiotic synthesis of chiral molecules always yields an equal mixture of their enantiomers, the biomolecules that make up life are always chiral and single-handed. Sientists believe that figuring out how life emerged from a racemic prebiotic world is key to undersanding the origin of life.
0wEyM TIL: In English, the ligature Æ is called 'Ash'
LkOwQ TIL Since Camera Phones have been adopted, UFO sightings have plummeted
OoW6X TIL of Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of a 1999 Japanese nuclear plant disaster. Radiation burns caused him to have nearly zero white blood cells. Despite his pleas, he was kept alive for research purposes. After 83 days in the hospital, he died of organ failure.
d0rB TIL Walt Disney World is the largest consumer of fire works in the United States.The park also launches the fireworks with compressed air instead of gunpowder to reduce fumes and gain better height and timing