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TIL The ancient Romans would eat with their hands and wipe their fingers on the table setting or the hair of slaves. Some slaves even had long hair for this purpose.

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nW58G TIL that Michael Jackson wrote "Do The Bartman" after calling the producers of "The Simpsons" and offering to write Bart a number-one single, but he couldn't receive credit for it because he was under contract to Epic Records.
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8ag8V TIL of the mbira, a musical instrument of the Zimbabwean Shona people that's like a mini handheld piano/xylophone