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TIL De Beers marketshare of the diamond industry went from ~80% in the 1980’s to ~35% today

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DQ0Vv TIL Mexico didn't recognize millions of descendents of African peoples they enslaved...until 2019. And the UN basically had to shame them into doing it.
jM5v TIL that the pilot episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for “Best Animated Short Film” at the 1995 Academy Awards.
4XK0g TIL In 1100, The skull of Pope Lucius I was beheld as a national relic in Denmark, for bringing peace to the city of Roskilde, by protecting it from Demons. He was then put on display with a petrified embryo and revered. Recent carbon dating has uncovered that the skull isn't his.
VM5QG TIL One reason the Lockheed F-117 and the HB1001 look like retro low-poly computer models is because they literally are. In 1974 when Denys Overholser leveraged 60s Soviet algorithms to calculate radar reflection, computers weren't powerful enough to reliably perform this function on curved surfaces
XAWk TIL that Pittsburgh, PA has 446 bridges – 3 more than Venice, Italy.