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TIL: The Hope Diamond was mailed through the United States Postal Service costing only $2 and $150 to insure.

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pYd8b TIL That coconut water, being almost identical to blood plasma, can be used as a plasma substitute. During World War II, many soldiers in the Pacific were saved through emergency transfusion using coconut water as replacement for intravenous plasma.
GYVyE TIL about Chris Lemons, a oil rig diver, who survived for nearly 40 minutes under water after his umbilical cord was cut during an accident. With him he had a emergency air tank with approximately 5 minutes of air
JYw7Q TIL Miners in Canada found a dinosaur that still had its skin, muscles and internal organs preserved
VXbk TIL Woody Allen’s son tweeted last Father’s Day: “Happy father’s day— or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day”
j6kvM TIL that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had bad handwriting, and before his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was published, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker had to puzzle out what was written on the scraps of paper smuggling out of King's jail cell