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TIL Czech Republic is the world leader in beer consumption by far.

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vPZxj TIL Ruby and Sapphire are the same mineral, Corundum, a type of Aluminum Oxide. The only difference are contaminants that give the stone its color.
EgoY0 TIL that despite the popular belief that the USSR possesed hundreds of ICBMs and was winning the arms race, in reality they possesed only four by 1961.
KON7Q TIL Georges Charpak was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945
exN6 TIL that there’s a company in Switzerland called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family. The color of the diamond is determined by all kinds of factors, however diamonds made from people that had gone through Chemo are usually distinctively a lighter color than the rest.
gMVV4 TIL that the global economic crisis of 2008-10 was linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths