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nepRo TIL: Dexter Holland of The Offspring wrote their hit "Gone Away" after his girlfriend was killed in a car accident
JANV TIL there exists a National Raisin Reserve, where US raisin farmers are forced to deposit part of their produce without any compensation. This is done in order to keep the raisin prices up, essentially making this a government run price cartel.
BERW TIL a key ingredient in root beer (sassafras root) was found to be carcinogenic and banned in 1960 by the FDA. Artificial versions are now generally used instead
ANLDw TIL in 2020, it was announced that AlphaFold, a neural network based on DeepMind AI, can predict a protein's final shape based solely on its amino-acid chain with an accuracy of 90%. Predicting the structure of a polypeptide from its sequence is considered of the greatest challenges in biology.
R7D4w TIL that when Billie Holiday would perform “Strange Fruit” at gigs, the club owner would order the waiters to stop serving, and the room would be in complete darkness except for a single spotlight on her face. It would close her act and there would be no encore.