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oNmL TIL Diamonds are so dense they slow light to half their normal speed which is what helps give diamonds their sparkle.
LZ6p TIL Deceased actor Anton Yelchin actually received a recall notice for the faulty park setting on his Chrysler the month before it cost him his life. He then received another recall notice three days after his death.
NjaQ TIL 196 troops, 14 truckloads of water, a mobile surgical unit, 45 military vehicles, and 3 tons of purified water were sent by Mexico as aid after Hurricane Katrina
oQlA TIL in 2013 a Chicago man told police who pulled him over “I’m gonna be real with you, I have a gun in my ass.” The cops then found a gun in his ass.
D16Gr TIL on 25th January 1996 Billy Bailey was executed by hanging. He is only the third person to be executed in the US by hanging since 1965. The gallows used were dismantled in 2003 as Delaware stopped allowing death row inmates this option of execution