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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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x6Kxk TIL 59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese
woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy
mxwvM TIL there was a conspiracy theory, actually investigated by some in British intelligence, that prime minister Harold Wilson was a KGB mole, and that the leader of the Labour Party before him was assassinated to clear his path to power
OoNYL TIL of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping. Three men kidnapped 26 kids + their bus driver + forced them into an underground bunker. They never gave their $5 millions random note to the police; they took a nap after the crime + when they woke up the victims had already escaped + returned home safely.
kELE TIL That there is a fish called a Barreleye that has a large transparent dome head.