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TIL roman concrete can actually grow stronger over time
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TIL that quarantine comes from the Italian word quaranta, meaning 40 because ships coming in had to spend 40 days off shore to prevent latent plague victims from coming in
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TIL Bananas emit antimatter almost every 75 minutes
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TIL Mount Everest is the only place in the world where the land ever touches the stratosphere.
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TIL in 1987 Walter Payton who played for the Chicago Bears, accidentally shot a man in the knee while holding a collectors handgun that he was unaware of being loaded.
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TIL that King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals.”