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TIL that diamonds slowly turn into graphite (the stuff you find in pencils) over time. Thus, diamonds are not really forever.

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b6rb9 TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.
yLA8 TIL that the United States consumes over 90% of the world’s stimulant drugs, and that there has been a 700% increase in the use of these drugs since 1990.
neRv9 TIL the Polish Scouts fought the nazis in the Warsaw uprising, avoiding booby traps of poisoned candy and then went on to resist communism up to the fall of the soviet Union.
9o9r TIL That obsidian knives are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. Due to this, when used in the medical field, incisions made with the blade heal faster with less scarring.
WelY TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.