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TIL There is a gemstone that has better brilliance, more fire, tougher, rarer and much cheaper than a Diamond: Moissanite

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pY1ab Til that Nicholas Trist the amassador sent to negotiate the end to the Mexican American war was fired from his post by president Polk. Trist responded by ignoring Polk’s order to return to the US and continued to negotiate the end of the war with Mexico.
gkP8 TIL that in the Pokemon episode “The Whistle Stop” one of the characters (James) starts to get eaten by one of his own Pokemon and speaks gibberish; when played backwards, it is “Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the Devil!”. This was as a protest when the voice actors wouldn’t be paid for commercial work.
P1e1g TIL: birds exhibit very jerky movements mainly for depth perception — quickly switching which eye is looking at something enables comparison between viewpoints, much like humans constantly compare views from their two eyes which the brain uses to create a 3D picture.
pYA5G TIL Dictator Muammar Gaddafi had a strange obsession with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He had Libya's most famous composer write her a song called "Black Flower in the White House." A photo album full of pictures of her was also found next to his bed by opposition fighters
neNbo TIL George Washington had Taphephobia - the fear of being buried alive. He was adamant about being put into the morgue 3 days after his death to make sure he wasn’t “accidentally” alive.