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TIL that in 1997 three boys in war- torn Sierre Leone were on the brink of starvation, when they spotted a single yam under a tree. They desperately went to dig it up, but when they did they discovered a 100 carat diamond underneath.

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b6Elp TIL Voltron was adapted from two unrelated shows, Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. GoLion forms the first half of the series while Dairugger forms the lesser known and lesser well regarded second half of the series.
QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.
VBnyG TIL that during WW2, the US also confined people with German and Italian ancestry (many who had US citizenship).
xQGw TIL that an e-reader packed with thousands of books is a billionth of a billionth of a gram heavier than if it were empty of data.