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TIL Diamonds are not actually rare.

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j6Bbn TIL d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son the Klingon language, used by the Klingons in the Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother spoke to him and at the age of 5 stopped answering his father when he spoke Klingon.
y8aJ TIL Wonder Woman originally had a super-weakness: Being bound or chained by a male would strip her of her superpowers.
4g1g TIL David Yost(The first Blue Ranger) is gay and quit Power Rangers because members of the cast and crew referred to him as a “faggot.”
OBX1 TIL During WW2 a private and a friend volunteered for a reconnaissance mission into an occupied city in the Netherlands. After his friend got killed, he liberated the city, single-handedly!
BrEbL TIL that the Great Sphinx of Giza is so old that its first restoration dates to 1400 BC, when it was already a thousand years old