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TIL there existed a translucent form of concrete that’s 30% lighter than regular cement, and comes in a variety of colors.

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mgRY TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”
GYY41 TIL that Italian artist Gaetano Pesce faked his own death to force the mayor of Florence to open his exhibition to the public
6K7Y TIL: the U.S. captive tiger population of 5,000 exceeds the total world population of wild tigers.
VM78k TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of applicants with perfect SAT scores. The percentage of students who took the SAT and got a perfect SAT score is less than 1%.
5V7WD TIL There are some state-funded programs that allow people to adopt dogs that failed government training for being too friendly or for some other reasons