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TIL that In 2016, a 1.5 carat laboratory-grown diamond cost $10,600 and in early 2023, the price has dropped to $2,445 due to large production.

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0wO7v TIL that since Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a trained Broadway singer, he had to re-record the famous George answering machine song because he sung it too well; Larry David wanted him to purposely sing terrible to make it sound believable.
RPl9 TIL Texas has at least 200 ghost-towns
jNMxN TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.
ewkk TIL: in 1985, 747 China Airlines Flight 006 lost power in the #4 engine, and may have broken the sound barrier in a stall spin before recovering successfully.
kJeDd TIL Scotland has 421 words for snow. This is because they have words to describe every type of snow, such as steels (to start raining or snowing), feefle (to swirl), and flinkdrinkin (a light snow).