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I am working on refinishing my basement and am putting up steel studding on the walls. We were trying to screw through a piece of steel and my friend today said something to the effect that you would need a handful diamonds to get through it. That made me think that there are probably some strange facts about diamonds that I never thought of.

• Most of the diamonds in the world are used for industrial purposes and not for getting your girlfriend off of your back.
• Less than 1% of women will ever wear a diamond that is one carat or more, my woman being one of them.
• In ancient times diamonds were seen as signs of strength, courage and invincibility.
• Archduke Maximilian of Austria was the first person to give a diamond engagement ring, to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. Blame him.
• The largest Diamond ever found was the Cullinan at 3,106 carats.
• Diamonds can withstand extremely high temperatures so they used in windows on space ships.
• In India, around one million people are employed because of diamond industry, the rest of them answer the phone when my cable goes out.

The goofy things you find playing around in google. I was looking at a series of industrial hand wheels when I found some very large sized wheels. Actually it was a tank built in 1914. You can see a man standing on top of it to the left and a man on the ground. This beast weighed 40 tons, it's wheels were 9 meters in diameter and oddly enough it got stuck on a small ditch on its first run. It was too big a target for the enemy and it was melted down by 1916.

This picture will put things into perspective for you. It's massive. A beast. Click on the photo to get the full sized picture, it's easier to read that way.

I came across this rather interesting list this morning. It is the Wiki List_of_Unusual_Deaths. Some of these are pretty good. It's a rather long list of strange facts but here are a few that caught my eye. They are all sorted by year in history.

1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.^[20]

1601: Tycho Brahe, according to legend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. It would have been extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, so he stayed until he became fatally ill. This version of events has since been brought into question as other causes of death (murder by Johannes Kepler, suicide, and mercury poisoning among others) have come to the fore.^[27]

1753: Professor Georg Wilhelm Richmann, of Saint Petersburg, Russia, became the first recorded person to be killed while performing electrical experiments when he was struck and killed by a globe of ball lightning. ^[35]

1814: London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed when 323,000 imperial gallons (1 468 000 L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.

1963: Thích Qu?ng ??c, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death. ??c was protesting President Ngô ?ình Di?m's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.^[76]