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TIL Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian via registered first class mail

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nWweP TIL of Abe no Nakamaro. A Japanese poet, he visited Tang Dynasty China as an Envoy of Japan. He failed to go home due to repeated shipwrecks and a Chinese rebellion, so he accepted a government post in the Tang Dynasty and was so talented that he was appointed governor of Vietnam.
x6yNk TIL that women exposed to music rate men as more attractive than women who aren't
9p5M TIL that some Native American’s have a differing enzyme that tends to lead to easier alcoholism.
yQOew TIL - It took more than 24 years for the radioactivity from the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant accident to clear from Scotland's sheep herds.
8X9P TIL 2013 was the first year without a Loch Ness Monster sighting since 1933