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

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v14kj TIL about invasive North American earth worms. All areas of North America that were covered in ice in the last ice age were devoid of worms before European colonization. If you've even encountered an earth worm north of the 45th parallel, it's almost guaranteed to be an Asian or European species.
A70n TIL: There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free but you pay for time
KYgA4 TIL That throughout the Cold War, almost the entire CIA's Cuban network of spies, actually worked for Cuba as double agents.
oB057 TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who in 1960 prevented nuclear war when NORAID misidentified the rising moon as 1000 Soviet Nuclear missiles, by asking where Khrushchev was
M7P8V TIL the current British Royal Family’s lineage can be traced back only to the Norman Invasion of William the Conquerer, not Alfred the Great, the first King of England