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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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e0EBE TIL of the improbable case of Phineas Gage, An American railroad worker who survived an accident where a metal bar went completely through his head
Y7n9P TIL Hosono Masabumi, the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic, lost his job, was called a coward, and was shunned in Japan because he did not go down with the ship.
78erX TIL that all the gold that has ever been mined in all of human history could fill about three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
0wBQR TIL about the Scientific Responsibility award that honors scientists and engineers for exemplary actions often taken at significant personal cost. One recipient was Roger Boisjoly who tried to prevent the Challenger Shuttle disaster by highlighting that the O rings could fail in cold weather.
WJ5B TIL Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.