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We know diamonds are the hardest, but determining the softest stuff on the planet is complicated.

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rDAo TIL that people born on the island of Bali, Indonesia are traditionally given one of four names based on their birth order within the family. The first child is called ‘oldest’, the second 'middle’, etc. The cycle repeats itself after the fourth, where the fifth child is called 'oldest again’.
XELmX TIL that during a 1973 Rolling Stones tour of Australia Keith Richards lived with a single mother and her son for a week, taking care of the baby while the mother was at work stating that "There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know I wiped his ass.".
jNwKN TIL that cement is the most widely used material in existence and the most-used resource in the world, second only to water.
NXBEP TIL testicles have taste buds that can taste Umami.
D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”