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TIL only 6 percent of obese men know they are obese

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QNkVX TIL If you heat the diamond in the open air, it will begin to melt and burn at around 700 degrees Celsius (1,292 degrees Fahrenheit). Burning a diamond without oxygen, however, will make it change into graphite (a crystalline form of carbon) before transforming into a fluid.
DAoJ TIL that all of the many self-portraits that Van Gogh is famous for were painted in a span of just 3 years.
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