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TIL Melanophila Beetles have the hottest sex, programmed to mate in the midst of fire

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oBxAW TIL that when you die you can have your remains turned in to a diamond. Carbon is extracted from your cremated ashes or hair and compressed to almost 900,000 PSI and subjected to temperatures of 2,500 degrees Celsius to form a bonding of the atoms.
BoEy TIL there’s an Elvis album called Having Fun With Elvis On Stage that contains no music, only comments made onstage between shows. It was released by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to get around RCA’s ownership of his material.
OGOke TIL - Slurpee was invented by a dairy queen franchise owner
lvOa TIL a Brazilian man in the UK, misidentified as a terrorist, was shot point blank in the head 7 times, whilst on the ground; by plain clothed police officers. No one was punished.
e0o7k TIL: in 1983 a massive landslide in Utah dammed the Spanish Fork river, creating "Thistle Lake" and flooding the town of Thistle, UT under about 200 feet of water. The town had to be evacuated and is a ghost town today.