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TIL Neptune may have oceans of liquid diamond, complete with floating “diamondbergs”

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W775B TIL that the Capitol was designed to have George Washington's tomb on public display. Both houses passed bills saying he should be buried there, and his wife consented, but due to various delays it took until 1830 for it to be viable. After an attempted theft of his head, the project was cancelled.
9xem TIL that falling in love is as easy as 1. Talk to someone about intimate details of each other lives for ½ an hour. 2. Stare at each others eyes for four minutes without talking.
vPYm8 TIL that the first use of the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" in American literature was in the 1823 book "Seventy-Six" by John Neal about the American Revolutionary War. Seventy-Six was criticized at the time for its use of profanity and was noted for its use of colloquialisms.
yQZRa TIL that the population of Ireland is still about 2 million less than what it was before the Potato Famine.
GYb1Q TIL of Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese war criminal who executed POWs on Bataan, fled to Indochina, and disappeared into Laos in 1961. He was later rumored to be working for North Vietnam. A CIA report said he was "the type of man who would start World War III without any misgivings."