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TIL A Roman Amphitheater collapse in 27AD killed 20,000 people and led to the Roman Senate passing a law requiring the foundations of all new amphitheaters to be inspected prior to use.

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PLWE TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
yN9w TIL the high five was used as a symbol of gay pride and identification
arPb TIL The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WW2 is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
YdBW TIL since wi-fi is nearly nonexistent in Cuba, people use the “Offline Internet”, passing hard disk drives around from person to person
eby4 TIL during the 1970s Boeing was almost bankrupt and the company barely survived by building TRAMS for San Francisco and Boston. Today, they’re the largest aerospace company in the world.