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TIL diamond has exceptional heat conductivity (better than copper)

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dDeW7 TIL that the singer of the 1982 version of "Puttin' on the Ritz" has the actual first name Taco, rather than being a band called Taco
wLKbY TIL that in the nation of Papua New Guinea (population 8 million) there are 820 different spoken languages (complete languages, not dialects), which belong to 60 language families as different from each other as French and Chinese
e0V6J TIL The entire city of Liverpool, UK has boycotted the tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'
OoLG6 TIL Sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus), called Jersualem artichoke or Sunchoke, is native to North America. Native Americans were first cultivate sunflower roots for food. Resists cold, drought, wind. The roots contain inulin, which is firmly established to decrease blood cholesterol. Improves beer.
lWPB TIL that scientists at UC Berkeley were able to take atomic-scale pictures of a molecule before and after a chemical reaction. The images looked EXACTLY like the classic molecular structure diagrams shown in text books.