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

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GjG7 TIL nodding your head to mean “yes” and shaking your head to mean “no” is common among people of every country in the entire world, except Bulgaria and southern Albania, where they mean the opposite.
QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
mx5kO TIL: During WWII about 250,000 Filipinos were promised US Citizenship & Veteran Benefits for aiding the US in fighting Japan, then the US reneged its offer and only about 4000 got any benefits at all.
BRLW TIL Mongol successfully invaded Russia in the winter
M7Kyb TIL that there is a traditional inuit food called Kiviak which is made by fermenting seabird inside a seal's skin