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TIL "Utopia" was written in the same year the first ghetto appeared.

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yVoxe TIL: California geothermal energy plant, The Geysers, uses treated wastewater to recharge their reservoir
OLQ6 TIL The US is 15th on the list of countries which believe that “The US government respects the freedom of its people.”
mxyeP TIL that in 1896 an american businessman created a spectacle for 40.000 people where he let two locomotives crash together, just for the fun of it. Unfortunately their boilers exploded during the crash and two people died.
4kmj5 TIL Marilyn Monroe was instrumental in kickstarting Ella Fitzgerald's career. A 1950's nightclub owner was reluctant to hire an overweight black singer until Monroe intervened saying if he did, she would sit in the front row every night. Once Ella was hired, Marilyn sat in front row for weeks
worD8 TIL all eukaryotic cells contain a complex machine made of proteins called the proteasome. It is made up of several "chambers" where other misfolded proteins are sent and where they will be ripped apart into many small pieces as they pass through the chambers.