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TIL that Reddit is wrong in their advert of Reddit Gold, claiming that while diamonds are forever, gold is the better electric conductor. Diamonds can in fact be superconductors (whereas gold cannot!)

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o6rE TIL that gazelles can outrun a cheetah because they cool blood before it gets to the brain, while cheetahs lack this and risk overheating if they run too long.
8gWa TIL Ben & Jerry’s had a company rule that from top to bottom, the pay ratio between the highest salaried executive and lowest-earning-worker would be no greater than 5 to 1. It lasted for 16 years until Ben retired.
R7xMj TIL that after a storm hit a cargo ship in 1997, nautical themed Lego pieces are still being washed up on beaches in Cornwall, UK to this day.
nxx7 TIL that when Harry Truman was 26, he never had a girlfriend. He sent a letter that year to his lifelong crush asking to marry him. Three weeks later, she responded by rejecting him.
BgE9L TIL: The Capacitor Plague, where capacitors had much higher failure rates between 1999 and 2007, as the formula was miscopied when a scientist stole it through corporate espionage in Japan. They returned to China and gave it to their previous employer, who put the faulty formula into production.