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TIL in 2014 Hot Pockets issued a major recall after the meat in their product was found to have been processed using diseased or unfit animals. The USDA wrote the products were “unfit for human food”.

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yVydl TIL: In April this year, Dubai once again broke the record for the most expensive license plate in the world, when "7" was sold for $15 million at auction. Some countries such as Hong Kong (where "R" and "W" were $3 million) auction off rare license plate numbers to the wealthy. In the US, it's $60.
ADoyo TIL that Lusia Harris of Delta State University was the first woman drafted into the NBA taken in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA draft by the New Orleans Jazz.
N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')
X0g5R TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
LpWm TIL That the U.S. Military used (and may still use) the “Meow Mix” commercial theme song as a torture device in some prisons, by playing it loud and on repeat.