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TIL that Tiffany won’t buy back its own diamonds because they’re sold at such a high margin that it would “undercut the widely held notion that diamonds go up in value.”

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Ey4X TIL that some scientists have observed a presentiment effect - where our body, heart rate, pupil dilation, seems to anticipate events like danger and reacts 1-10 seconds earlier to the event actually happening.
OKag TIL that Bratislava Airport is within an hour’s drive of Vienna (Austria), Brno (Czech Republic), Győr (Hungary), and of course Bratislava (Slovakia), making it the only airport to serve four countries
P1Weg TIL about Betty Lowman, who at 22 rowed a dugout canoe ~1,300km (~800 mi) from Washington state up the British Columbia coast to Alaska, by herself, in 1937.
7r89L TIL even after years of lying about her brother Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a way to extort money from the press, when La Toya Jackson asked him for forgiveness he simply opened his arms, hugged her and said “I will always love my sister.”
8ajXZ TIL that ransom payments made to kidnappers to secure the release of your kidnapped child are tax-deductible in the US.