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TIL powdered water exists.

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OoVJ6 TIL when Ed Sheeran was just starting out and had no place to stay, Jamie Foxx let him live at his house for 6 weeks and then invited Sheeran to perform for an all-black crowd of 800. "He went up there on that ukulele and got a standing ovation in 12 minutes, and the rest is history," Foxx recalled.
9Vnm TIL that Germany’s racing color is silver because one of their cars was barely overweight, so they just scrapped the paint off leaving the silver body. The car won and the color stuck.
VBPm TIL that 35 million years ago, with the force of millions of nuclear weapons, an asteroid slammed into earth instantly turning the ground below it into diamonds
OonwR TIL that ashes (cremated remains) can be compressed into a diamond. Several, actually. They've created up to 9 diamonds from a single person's remains.
BgaBk TIL that since the pandemic began, home values in Cape Coral, Florida have increased by 85.96%, which is the largest increase in the United States