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TIL That the Pantheon is still standing after two millennia because the Romans used better quality concrete than we do

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p8O98 TIL Michael Phelps' lungs can store twice as much oxygen compared to the average person
KO0yR TIL about South Park episode 201. In it, Tom Cruise attempted to steal Muhammad’s immunity to satire. It ended with Kyle realizing that the best way to block parody was through threats of violence. The episode was censored due to bomb threats from Muslim activists, and Kyle’s revelation was removed.
OowQR TIL that for hundreds of years Europeans practiced medicinal cannibalism and in 1910, a German pharmaceutical catalog was still selling mummies for medicinal purposes.
7Ogp TIL Army PFC LaVena Johnson’s 2005 death at a base in Balad, Iraq was ruled a “suicide.” She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from corrosive chemicals on her genitals and a gunshot wound.
PYXyZ TIL Luffas are grown on a vine like a gourd instead of in the sea like other natural sponges.