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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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nyGG TIL Canada had a Mach-2 fighter before any other country, but it was cancelled for political reasons. The engineers went to NASA and put Neil Armstrong on the Moon.
P1MXL TIL Tyrannosaurus rex and Brachiosaurus, both depicted in Jurrasic Park movie, existed further apart from each other in time, around 90 million years, than humans do to T. Rex, approx. 65 million years.
7r8ax TIL that technology based on the skin of poison dart frogs may solve aviations ice problem on airplane wings.
OYm1 TIL: In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
6EpnX TIL duck boat tours use replica or surplus military DUKW vehicles used for amphibious landings in WW2