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TIL millennials aren’t buying diamonds anymore - millennials would rather spend money on experiences than diamonds

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vdwj TIL one reliable method that is used to detect art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 in that these isotopes did not occur naturally prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
VMdMk TIL Hitler named his personal armoured train 'Amerika' (America) until 1943 when it's name was changed to Brandenburg.
pYnv4 TIL According to English laws for co-production of movies, the majority of movies making over $50 million in UK Box Offices were UK productions.
rR06M TIL that in 1971, the shah of Iran threw a party costing about present day 516million $
d8AWd TIL: British author Agatha Christi absolutely detested her character Hercule Poirot, even going as far as to call him, "A detestable, bombastic, egocentric, little creep." She only kept writing books about his adventures at the behest of her editors, because they sold so well.