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TIL: How Many Locusts Does It Take to Start a Biblical Plague? Just three.

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bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
VM4gp TIL in 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar from LucasFilm for $5 million
V0am TIL that some people have been recorded and survived having a blood alcohol content over 1.00%.
R5bo9 TIL That the body mass index was invented in 1830 and 1850 by a Belgian mathematician, astronomer and statistician and not a physician.
j7nn TIL, according to a report in Britain’s BMJ medical journal, nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins.