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TIL Bread become sweeter the longer you chew as your saliva starts to break down starch into sugars.

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OGPoe TIL researchers have found that the ancient Romans manipulated chemistry to make "quicklime" that caused "self healing" concrete, thereby preserving ancient Roman architecture, and answering why so many of their structures remain standing when modern structures fail.
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