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TIL There is a Mineral called Lonsdaleite which is 58% harder than conventional Diamonds

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pY86e TIL about Ron Clifford, a man who survived the 9/11 attacks after his business meeting was moved to the World Trade Center. In a tragic coincidence, Ron's sister Ruth and her 4-year old daughter Juliana were both on American Airlines Flight 175, the plane that hit the South Tower.
e0AGk TIL that Bhutan is the only Carbon negative country in the world.
rEMx TIL that Doritos were invented at Disneyland in 1964 as a way to use old tortillas
pM5N TIL: In 2001, John Hopoate was suspended from Rugby for twelve weeks because he “had been inserting his fingers into the backsides of several players”
jN0mM TIL that the WWF'S Iron Sheik, whose shtick was to be pro Iranian and very anti-American (usually alongside Nikolai Volkoff in the 80s), had previously been an assistant coach on the U.S. National Wrestling Team during the Olympics.