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TIL that ashes (cremated remains) can be compressed into a diamond. Several, actually. They've created up to 9 diamonds from a single person's remains.

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KON0E TIL Clitoridectomies (surgical removal of the clitoris) were performed in the United States into the 1960s to treat, among other things, "lesbianism."
R7BL7 TIL the reason why the music genre "shoegazing" got its name is that the performers would stand in a detached state with their heads down. It was because the heavy use of effects pedals meant the musicians had to observe the pedals' readouts.
W7yp9 TIL that in 2021 former NBA center Shawn Bradley was involved in a bike accident that left him paralyzed. He has since described his height (7 foot 6 or 2.29m) as a hindrance to recovery since quadriplegia at that height has no medical precedent.
ne7Vd TIL: 1,500 YouTube views count as an album sale in the US
4Wab TIL - Tim Burton was reportedly uncomfortable with casting Christopher Walken as Max Shreck in Batman Returns. When the casting director asked him why he said, “Because that man scares the hell out of me.”