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TIL There is evidence of seas of liquid diamond on Neptune.

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5YRmp TIL that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was part of the Navy codebreaking team that, in 1943, fatally targeted the flight of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1932, Stevens witnessed Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the Yankees-Cubs World Series.
x68K5 TIL that fractual burning, a hobby/side hustle that uses a 2,100+ volt transformer from a scrapped microwave to burn decorative, treelike designs in wood, has killed at least 33 people in the U.S. since 2017, and gruesomely burned many others.
49DN TIL the elements in the average human body are worth around $160
eB1E TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
Vk6D TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.