{"id":161,"date":"2006-08-18T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/161-facts-about-diamonds-a-girls-best-friend"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:21:12","slug":"facts-about-diamonds-a-girls-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/161-facts-about-diamonds-a-girls-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Diamond\"Women have loved diamonds for centuries, diamonds have been dubbed a girl’s best friend and for good reason. Here are some facts about diamonds that will likely make a diamond more appealing to you for any occasion!<\/p>\n

1. Diamonds are the hardest substance on earth.<\/p>\n

2. Diamonds are carbon.<\/p>\n

3. Only 20% of the world’s diamonds are suitable for use in jewelry.
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\n4. The largest diamond ever found to date was the Cullinan at an astounding 3,106 carats!<\/p>\n

5. Diamonds are formed from extreme temperatures and pressure in the earth’s crust.<\/p>\n

6. Mother Nature is only capable of making diamonds. Man has yet to find a way to reproduce extreme heat and pressure like that found in the earth’s crust.<\/p>\n

7. Most of the diamonds found in nature are anywhere from one to three billion years old.<\/p>\n

8. The first recorded use of a diamond used for the purpose of a marriage proposal happened in 1477 when Archduke Maximillian of Austria offered Mary of Burgundy a diamond as a betrothal gift.<\/p>\n

9. Diamond engagement rings are worn on the third finger of the left hand because the Egyptians believed the vein in that finger ran straight to the heart.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Man first found diamonds some 4,000 years ago in the Golcanda region of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women have loved diamonds for centuries, diamonds have been dubbed a girl’s best friend and for good reason. Here are some facts about diamonds that will likely make a diamond more appealing to you for any occasion! 1. Diamonds are the hardest substance on earth. 2. Diamonds are carbon. 3. Only 20% of the world’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}