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TIL Sticky Rice was used in the Great Wall of China to make inorganic−organic composite mortar that would rival modern cement in strength.

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LQo5Q TIL that there was a third atomic bomb scheduled to be detonated over an undisclosed location in Japan.
dDYd TIL that Viva La Bam star Don Vito is a convicted sex offender and is serving 10 years intensive supervised probation, for sexually assaulting two 12 year old girls.
1aLmO TIL of Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter. Once, when asked whether she had a message for the children of America, she replied, "no." She later became an activist, protesting foreign policy towards South African apartheid, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
vP5Kx TIL the first name of the composer of the title music for the sitcom "ALF" is Alf.
kOX0B TIL Kishimoto Masashi’s wife was upset that Naruto ended up with Hinata instead of Sakura in the popular Shounen anime.