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TIL April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."

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QxA6 TIL that newgrange in Ireland is older than both Stonehenge and the pyramids in Giza. On the morning of the winter solstice every year the rising sun shines down the entrance passageway and illuminates the burial chamber at the end. This only happens for a few minutes, once a year.
jNlBv TIL that Henry of Champagne, King of Jerusalem, once fell off a balcony of his castle. He would have survived though, if it wasn't for his servant, a dwarf named Scarlet, who jumped out to save him, but ended up landing on him instead.
0w45L TIL about diamond mining in India, which was the only place where diamonds were mined until 1726. Koh-i-Noor, Hope, Nizam, Jacob, Great Mughal, Orlov are some of famous diamonds from a region called Golconda(kollur) in India
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
dDKDQ TIL, On saturn, it literally rains diamonds | BBC Earth