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TIL The eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE destroyed the city of Pompeii, and buried its library in ash. Texts from that library are now being read for the first time in two thousand years.

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rNE01 TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.