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TIL that scientists have found a way to make diamonds out of high carbon peanut butter.

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oBM9L TIL while a grad student, botanist Arthur Galston discovered the use of an acid to encourage the flowering of soybeans, noting that high levels had a defoliant effect. The military later developed this acid into agent orange. Galston became a bioethicist, and his objections led Nixon to ban it.
KY0G9 TIL Violet Jessop is most well known for having survived the sinking of both the RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship the HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been onboard the eldest of the three sister ships, the RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911
oBZjr TIL Brent Gretzky, along with his brother Wayne, hold the record for most NHL points scored by siblings with 2,861. (Brent has 4).
d8N6B TIL Gustaw Herling wrote a book in 1951 entitled A World Apart about the two years he spent in the Soviet gulag, and that the book ends with letters from prominent Communists assuring westerners that these camps don't exist.
xgxk TIL that multiple cities claim to be the “Second City of the United Kingdom”. Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester argue for the title, as did Calcutta, Dublin, and Philadelphia in the past.