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TIL a man in Arizona stole a diamond worth $160,000 and traded it for $20 worth of weed

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6EA1W TIL when Mary Queen of Scots was executed, her executioners knelt before her to ask her forgiveness. She granted it saying “I forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles.” Unfortunately the headsman missed his first stroke, hitting the back of her head.
GGQJ TIL that Aztec king Montezuma II consumed up to 50 pitchers of liquid chocolate a day.
bKjp TIL that in 1830, a group of Australian convicts hijacked a ship off the coast of Tasmania and sailed it to isolationist Japan. At a port on Shikoku Island, a samurai disguised as a fisherman recalled walking the docks, when they noted “an unbearable stench in the vicinity of the ship.”
yVJRv TIL that the largest rainforest in Southern Africa was unknown to the outside world until it was discovered via Google Earth satellite images in 2011. It sits on top of a “410-foot sheer rock protuberance”, making it virtually untouched by humans until recent research trips.
ZGoo TIL that while filming for his reality show, Ted Nugent was cutting down a tree to create a stump for a show contestant to sit on when he managed to cut his own leg with a chainsaw requiring 40 stiches