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TIL: some pirates say they've been hired by companies to hijack a ship and "lose it" so that the companies can gain the insurance money

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a8gMZ TIL in Sept 2023 a grand jury indicted Duane Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. He allegedly planned and ordered the hit in retaliation for his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, being beaten in a casino earlier that night. He's reportedly the last surviving participant of Shakur's murder.
eEpL TIL Scientists in Mexico turned tequila into diamonds by heating a cheap shot to 800 degrees Celsius. At that temp, it vaporized and broke down into its atomic constituents, producing a fine layer of carbon crystal structures identical to diamonds on nearby metal trays.
vPOKj TIL the "milk" tea at boba / bubble tea shops is traditionally made with non-dairy creamer
aLPo TIL that India is only 109th in real population density, as such a high percentage of the land is arable. There is roughly the same amount of farmable land in India per Indian as there is in Germany for each German.
QN9aX TIL a supernova releases the equivalent of ~3*10^28 megatonnes of tnt worth of energy. For comparison the largest man made explosion ever(Tsar Bomba) released 50 megatonnes of tnt equivalent.