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TIL there is a company that makes "memorial diamonds": synthetic diamonds made from the ashes of cremated human remains. The process takes 6-8 weeks and requires at least 1 pound of ashes.

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mxpwo TIL even though newborn kittens are born blind, deaf, and helpless they still hiss at potential threats.
5VgWP TIL of the Frog Test, a pregnancy test where a woman’s urine was injected into a frog, and if it started ovulating, the woman was pregnant. It was used in the 1940s-60s and was surprisingly accurate.
yQXb8 TIL in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the famous detuned “flashbulb” sound, which is actually a tuning fork scraping a piano string.
XE1JP TIL in 2011 Nicolas Cage woke up in his Orange County house in the middle of the night to find a naked man, wearing Cage’s leather jacket, and eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed. The man was arrested by police, but Cage didn’t press charges.
Neye TIL of Hitlers plan to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build the “Museum of An Extinct Race”