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TIL a Shopping Mall in Rhode Island was Partially Converted Into Apartments

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XXnP TIL That the Pine Ridge Indian reservation has the lowest life expectancy in the USA, and the second lowest in the Western Hemisphere, second only to Haiti.
oBgm7 Today I learned with enough Watermelons, you can block an Artillery shot!
N77LN Til: That a Japanese Village was spared being destroyed during the 2011 tsunami by its huge seawall - a wall that its previous mayor had been harshly criticized for building
nYPY TIL that the rail system in Europe is so good because better rail systems mobilized armies better for WWI.
WkRr4 TIL that in 1999, Steve Jobs showed off a PlayStation 1 emulator as upcoming software for Macintosh computers. He even proudly demonstrated Crash Bandicoot 3 running on the emulator.