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TIL Diamonds are not actually rare.

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VMavp TIL of Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman from the Late shows with David Letterman. He was the first face to greet viewers on both the NBC and CBS debut shows. He was a regular feature on the shows from 1982-2002 and had a cult following. He requested no funeral service and left no survivors.
JY988 TIL Notorious Hellraiser and actor Oliver Reed once “kidnapped” the milkman while delivering to his home in Surrey, and took him on a two-day drinking binge.
RA04 TIL that Adolf Hitler scribbled a prototype for a car in 1932, sitting at a restaurant table in Munich, which would later go on to become the immensely successful design for a car we now know as the Volkswagen Beetle.
E1M57 TIL In Raiders’ iconic truck chase, Spielberg filmed Harrison Ford for only a few seconds (closeups). 2nd unit director, Michael D Moore, filmed most of the scene with stunt doubles, including Terry Leonard who performed Indy dragged underneath the truck and cameoed as the first Nazi truck driver
0weXp TIL Tom Marvolo Riddle's name had to be translated into 68 languages, while still being an anagram for "I am Lord Voldemort", or something of equal meaning.