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TIL: You can Grow a Black Diamond from a Dogs Ashes

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JbQk TIL Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was painted while he was in a mental institution in 1889. Not only that, his painting perfectly captured the scientific phenomenon known as “turbulence” To mathematical precision despite it not being explained via physics in the 1940’s.
EGGo TIL Nicolas Cage was once stalked by a mime.
lAOA TIL The United States Constitution is the only constitution from the 18th century that’s still in use.
WyXN TIL there is a bright pink millipede that is able to ‘shoot’ cyanide.
VMJap TIL In 1943, the British took a civilian's corpse, filled his lungs with water, dressed him in a military uniform, gave him fake intelligence letters, and dropped him off the coast of Spain -- all in an elaborate ruse to draw the Germans away from Sicily. It worked.