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TIL the town of Nördlingen, Germany is embedded with millions of microscopic diamonds, a result of an asteroid, which struck the area some 15 million years ago.

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VBdK4 TIL Taylor Swift is the first musician to reach billionaire status based solely on the earnings from their music and performances.
LQWlv TIL that alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t kill norovirus, the highly contagious “winter vomiting disease” that sickens 685 million people per year.
GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s
QJgXe TIL Jeff Bezos made $6.24 billion in 5 minutes on October 10, 2017.
rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.