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TIL that scientists can make diamonds out of tequila

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d80pE Today I learned that the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out because a Japanese soldier ditched during a drill to use the bathroom. When they couldn't find him, they assumed that he was kidnapped by a nearby Chinese Town. That led to an armed conflict that led to a full-scale war that lasted 8 years.
MeW TIL because humor comes from seeing things from a novel angle and self-deception reduces such angles, self-deceivers have a poorer sense of humor.
0w0ZR TIL the awesomely huge Saturn-5 rockets on the Apollo program hauled over six million pounds of mass into space - that's 2.75M kilos, or 3,000 tons.
DQKbe TIL taking drugs for heartburn can cause a person to develop allergies
9wxBX TIL Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, financed the construction of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz