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TIL Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.

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Oo566 TIL that medieval dentists knew how to fill cavities, treat facial fractures, could spot oral cancer, and even knew the basics of whitening teeth. Evidence also suggests they knew how to create dentures out of cow bone and human teeth.
oRybY TIL that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano was heard from 6000 miles away. For reference, that is the equivalent of hearing a sound from Moscow while being all the way in San Francisco. Before 2022, this record was held by the eruption of Krakatoa whose range was 3000 miles.
pYGbN TIL Canada also had American-style "Sundown Towns" like Leamington, Ontario, "where Black people would face violence or harassment if they were in public after dark"
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epppg TIL that between 1854 and 1921 in the US, over 250,000 children were transported on "Orphan Trains" to be adopted by new families; many found new homes, but, sadly, sometimes the "adoptions" were little more than auctions and the children pressed into forced farm labor.