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TIL that the world's largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, and it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it just was a diversion, beacause the real stone was sent in a plain box via post

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8eLaa TIL about turducken, a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey
4PpJ TIL that in 2000 Nestlé chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that “access to water should not be a public right.” While that statement was recanted, Nestlé continues to take control of aquifers and bottle their water for profit.
rNWwM TIL about the Hart Island Project, which is aimed at listing and identifying bodies buried in mass graves at New York City’s mass burial cemetery on Hart Island. Each body has a clock that counts the minutes, hours, days, and years until each body is identified and their story is told.
Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base
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