› added 2 years ago

172

TIL that 90% of the world's diamonds are cut and polished in Surat, India

Read more businessinsider.in

via reddit.com

KbPw TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.
xWp5 TIL Facebook has about 8000 user deaths per day, and eventually the dead profiles will out number living ones making it a digital graveyard.
BrRox TIL that the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II is located in Manila, Philippines. It has 17,206 graves. 16,636 of which were U.S. personnel. #MemorialDay
5YbpP TIL that the 'Illuminati' conspiracy was dreamt up in Playboy in the 1960s as an experiment to disprove conspiracy thinking. It backfired.
evM4 TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code