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TIL Chipotle has a policy of bringing ingredients to the tables of disabled diners and doing tableside preparation so they don’t miss out on the “Chipotle experience”

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Oopy6 TIL early versions of the Thompson submachine gun used a "Blish Lock" to hold the action closed. It was based on a theory that two dissimilar metals would resist movement under extreme pressures. The lock had no useful effect on the action and was eliminated in the WW2 redesign of the SMG.
QKmM TIL “Idaho” is a made-up word, suggested by a delegate as a practical joke.
jn9v TIL in 1951 a researcher discovered something never seen before. Cells from a woman named Henrietta Lacks could be kept alive and grown. 20 tons of her cells have been grown to date.
wx9P TIL that during WWII, Stigler a German pilot with 22 victories, spotted a badly damaged American B-17 Bomber. He noticed that the tail gunner was dead and they posed no threat. Instead of shooting it down, he escorted it to safety. 40 years later, the pilots reunited and became buddies.
N7yAM TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)