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TIL Paul McCartney in 2002 threw his fiance' Heather Mills' diamond-and-sapphire engagement ring (£15,000 ($25,500) out of a hotel window during an argument. After calming down he asked security at the Turnberry Isle Resort and Club to search the grounds and it was eventually found.

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e0kkD TIL sea level rise is caused by two main factors, melting land ice (glaciers), and "thermal expansion" the expansion of space between water molecules as the ocean gets warmer. So the ocean is both gaining water molecules, and the water molecules are spreading out and taking up more space.
e0AAD TIL about David Vetter, a boy lived almost his whole life in a sterile bubble because he had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Dubbed "the boy in the bubble", he died at 12 after a failed bone marrow transplant.
7wAr TIL the descendants of black slaves owned by the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma are still battling with the tribal leadership in a fight to be recognized as full and legitimate members of the tribe, after about 25,000 were disenfranchised in the early 1980s.
ADvxd TIL Panko is made from bread baked by electrical current, which yields a bread without a crust. The unique method developed during World War II out of a necessity to cook bread without access to an oven
WgX8 TIL only three artists have had a Top 40 hit single in every decade since the 80’s: Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Weird Al Yankovic