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TIL that diamonds have very little resale value, and we believe that they are valuable because.of a very successful advertising campaign that started in the late 1930s

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e0Ydg TIL: The USS Wisconsin took a direct hit from N Korean 155mm guns with little damage. The crew then returned fire with all nine of her 16 inch guns totally obliterating anything in the position the hostile shots came from. After the shots were fired, a sister ship signaled them "Temper, Temper"
exPL TIL that humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the anus forms before any other opening (which means we all were at some point nothing but an asshole)
0yR5 TIL that a pilot was actually recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed
d0eE TIL Tibetan monks sleep sitting up and even have a special “box” for it (pic in article)
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