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TIL that there are enough diamonds found under the Popigai asteroid crater in Russia to supply the world diamond market for 3,000 years.

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BgB4W TIL Archimedes stated the diameter of the sun is about thirty-times the diameter of the moon and not larger and the earlier astronomers Eudoxus declared the sun about 9x larger than moon
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