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TIL scientists in Edinburgh successfully created diamonds by subjecting peanut butter to extreme heat and pressure

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8BMG TIL some cooperative bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Brazil help fishermen - having signaled with head and tail slaps to the fishermen where to drop nets, they corral the fish toward into them and eat the fish missed by the net.
vPERL TIL that the U.S. Federal law enacted in July, 1984–which established the national minimum drinking age as 21 years old— allowed the government to withhold Federal aid to highways from States that did not quickly adapt.
R5M98 TIL that Quebec's provincial pension fund owns nearly 20% of the international circus act Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, founding in Quebec
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