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TIL That More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy

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R7561 TIL: De Beers has spent millions trying to detect the difference between "real" diamonds and modern lab-grown diamonds - so far to no avail - as the diamond supply floods with cheap chinese lab-grown gems.
VMkwB TIL that when confronted by a rattlesnake, a California ground squirrel will direct blood to it’s tail to heat it up, causing the rattlesnake to back down because it distinguishes prey by sensing infrared radiation.
BgLyr TIL a high school student wrote a text-based moon landing simulation in 1969 using a PDP-8 minicomputer. It was "a question and answer game" - at each stage of the landing you'd find out your current velocity and then you had to enter how much fuel to use. If you burned fuel too early, you'd crash.
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