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TIL it's possible to buy real human bones online

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gMnw8 TIL that De Beers, the world's biggest diamonds company, started selling synthetic diamonds for the first time in its 130-year history. The manufacturing process has become so perfect that it has become difficult to tell the difference between synthetic and natural diamonds.
VaxB TIL there is only one instance in history that a submarine managed to intentionally sunk another submerged submarine in combat.
7ZJ7 TIL, FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla’s belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen.
yVnba TIL: Immigration authorities at Dubai airport keep a sample/specimen passport from every country on file to help spot fake passports.
d9Y8 TIL that the bacteria responsible for the bubonic plague, ‘Yersinia pestis’, spread to humans through fleas by inhibiting the flea’s blood feeding, causing the flea to regurgitate the infected blood into the host’s wound and go on an infectious biting spree in a futile attempt to feed itself.