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TIL De Beers no longer controls the diamond market and prices are set by market forces after a century long monopoly

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M71Wm TIL Canadian cable-TV music network MuchMusic refused to air Warrant's "Cherry Pie" music video on the grounds that it was "offensively sexist".
x6e6b TIL the Library of Congress has a “free to use and reuse” section featuring millions of photos, books, films, and sound recordings that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright, or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.
e0QV5 TIL that during WWII Polish children and women were given refuge by an Indian king.
M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.
NJK8 TIL that the United States experiences approximately 75 percent of all tornadoes in the world.