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TIL Pink Slime was actually in 70% of ground meat and processed meat in grocery stores in the US in 2012. Today it is banned in Europe and Canada, but is still legal in the US

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lo0ZN TIL snails, which are hermaphrodites, have sex by first stabbing each other with a tiny spike called a love dart, which determines who is more likely to be the 'male' in the exchange (the better stabber). Scaled to human size, the dart would be a 15-inch knife.
GY6P7 TIL All foreign citizens visiting Tibet must be in a tour group and there are no direct international flights from foreign countries to Tibet, except for Nepal, which borders Tibet
gMjR9 TIL some people are phobic of certain numbers. In some Asian countries, it is common to omit floors that include the 4 as it is similar to death in Mandarin. While in Italy, 17 may refer "I am dead." In some western cultures, 13 is considered an unlucky number.
grP7W TIL: Sherman Sizemore, through medical errors, experienced 16 minutes of an exploratory laparotomy, before he was given an anesthetic. Prior to this, he was only given a paralytic, forcing him to feel every cut the surgeon made in his body.
MewDB TIL of the "compute stick", a fully fledged computer that is plugged into a monitor like a streaming device.