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TIL that the planet PSRJ1719-1438B used to be a star, and is now made up entirely of diamond.

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5G8k TIL Starbucks spends more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.
GYEnN TIL about Georgy Malenkov. He was briefly in charge of the USSR between Stalin and Khrushchev. He left politics shortly after his reign and managed to live until 1988.
MedrB TIL about the Falkirk Wheel, the world's only rotating boat lift, which lifts boats 80 feet between two canals. What used to take 11 locks and most of a day now takes about 10 minutes.
Br0NL TIL children's poet Shel Silverstein wrote many outlaw country songs, such as A Boy Named Sue.
7W0Z TIL - In the cold war, US, UK, FR intelligence deprived the Soviets in East German of Toilet paper so they would resort using official documents to wipe. Operation Tamarisk was great success.