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TIL that "pink slime" is a meat by-product produced by heating and centrifuging beef trimmings. It is approved for limited human consumption in the United States but is banned for human consumption in the European Union.

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x6aW7 TIL Michael Cleveland became a beast of a fiddle player despite being born blind and with no corpus callosum (connection between the two halves of the brain)
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VBpQZ TIL that the first commercial mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was released in 1983 and had a price tag of $3,995.
QByd TIL that in the late 1700s, a king of India developed rocket artillery that fired swords in order to fight the British.
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