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TIL diamonds are formed 90-125 miles below earth’s surface. Thats roughly the equivalent height of 23 mount everests. Then they make their way to the surface through volcanic eruptions or meteor strikes.

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N6K8 TIL there is a city in Russia where the pollution is so severe that mining the topsoil is now economically feasible because it contains so many heavy metals.
4Xw96 TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
7DNb TIL That prior to Westerners coming to Japan there had been a ban on red meat. The Emperor repealed the ban because he believed it was responsible for the Westerners greater size.
Yv4r TIL former college basketball coach George Raveling has the original, typewritten “I have a dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. Raveling was a volunteer security guard at the event and King handed it to him after he finished addressing the audience. It is valued at over $3,000,000.