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TIL scientists discovered a way to make diamonds from tequila.

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MxD7 TIL That British soldiers executed Indian rebels by tying them to the mouth of a canon, then firing…
mx96R TIL being overweight, but not obese, results in a lower mortality rate than being in the "normal" range (using BMI as a measure).
kOkOB TIL that Guinea worm disease (Dracunculiasis) is likely to be the first parasitic disease to be globally eradicated, and that treatment by slowly extracting the nematode by wrapping it around a stick hasn't fundamentally changed since at least 1550 BCE as described in an Egyptian medical papyrus
Me0OW TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart "nothing at all."
p6kO TIL Whilst on his deathbed, French philosopher Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan, he simply replied “Now is not the time for making new enemies.”