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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.

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wowjW TIL in 1929 in the first Academy Awards four films were nominated for best cinematography and George Barnes was cinematographer for three of them. He lost to the fourth film (Sunrise).
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