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TIL diamond really has no value. De Beers created an ad that convinced generations of young men and women that diamonds are valuable and synonymous with love

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Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
1Pk8 TIL Australian cats do not respond to catnip
4X76 TIL that the Korean DMZ is an involuntary nature reserve and is home to extremely rare tigers and bears
X0mgk TIL the word for Pennsylvania and "penis" is the same in Cantonese
8a4L TIL the solution that finally solved the BP Oil Spill was originally suggested by James Cameron