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TIL the largest red diamond in the world (the rarest color) was not found by miners but by a farmer. It weighs one gram and sold for eight million dollars.

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XgPk TIL Elon Musk explicitly wrote into SpaceX’s contract with Orbital Outfitters that the that the company’s new spacesuits must look “badass”.
8eLga TIL the so called “Blue Zones” of longevity are likely just regions rife with clerical errors and pension fraud
Zpykp TIL about Richard Ankrom, an artist who created and installed a perfect replica of a highway sign to prevent motorists from missing the exit from CA-110 (north) to I-5 (north)
yQGnp TIL that in 2007, the Scottish government spent £125,000 ($163,000) to devise a new national tourism slogan. The winning slogan ended up being "Welcome to Scotland".
YV6B TIL of Allison Jenkins, who was convicted of felony murder of a police officer after the arresting police officer accidentally shot and killed his own partner