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TIL that it doesn't just rain diamonds in Jupiter. It also rains diamonds in Uranus and Neptune

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8aZlK TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime.
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