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TIL a company called Beyond Meat makes protein-rich and sustainable meat alternatives made entirely from plants. Bill Gates writes that he was “fooled by how real it tasted” and called it “a taste of the future of food”.

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yVjxl TIL when American producers remade the British crime thriller Broadchurch, they decided to keep the leading star in the same role as detective, but just made him talk in an US accent this time around
e0b8g TIL Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man off the ledge in 1981 and stopped him from taking his own life
px9p TIL there is an ongoing genocide in the country of Burma in which 140,000 native Rohingya people are stripped of citizenship and forced into concentration camps
6E11Y TIL A turquoise lake in Siberia is nicknamed the "Novosibirsk Maldives" because of how tropical it looks. Popular with Instagrammers, it is actually a power plant's ash dump and caused by calcium salts and other metal oxides
VWvQ TIL Lou Ferrigno still voices The Hulk in the two Avengers movies.