Good Housekeeping: Random Pieces of Trivia that will Impress your Friends #8


 

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The Crown Jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on Earth.


They both came from the Cullinan Diamond, a 3,106-carat gem found in South Africa in 1905. The largest stone, called the Great Star of Africa, is in the Sovereign's Sceptre, while the second largest is mounted in the Imperial State Crown 


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