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TIL the saying ‘Diamonds are Forever’ is pure marketing: after the South African diamond rush, the value of the diamond should have plummeted if not for the Oppenheimer family managing to convince the world that diamonds have always been associated with love.

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epWB6 TIL that until 1976, the US Army shared responsibility with the Marines for transporting the President by helicopter. When crewed by their personnel, the aircraft was known as "Army One".
Ra79 TIL that the Ku Klux Klan successfully adopted a road in Missouri. The Missouri state legislature fought back by renaming the road after civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
jNZkE TIL that there existed a tree swastika in a German forest that went unnoticed for nearly 60 years.
EoOo TIL that the season 6 blu-ray of Dexter had an unskippable trailer that spoiled that season’s finale.
kOOw7 A windowless skyscraper in the heart of New York City may be the secret Manhattan surveillance hub of the US National Security Agency (NSA), The Intercept has reported. The brutalist, 29-storey AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street has sheer concrete walls that could reportedly survive an atomic explosion; inside, documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest is one of the agency’s most important spying centres.