Post * Z85VY — Curious Curator

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TIL In January 2002, while a junior in high school, Gallivan demonstrated that a single piece of toilet paper 4000 ft in length can be folded in half twelve times. She then served as a consultant and was mentioned in an episode of MythBusters in 2007.

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J1MV8 TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.

ANkZw TIL we can inherit traits from our parents and even emotions like fear. From Science, a recent study "found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were the result of epigenetics alone."

JYNb4 TIL that Robert A. Heinlein is credited with popularizing the phrase "pay it forward."

epaPg TIL John and Lorenna Bobbitt, an American former couple whose relationship received international press coverage in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with a food knife while he was asleep in bed; the penis was successfully surgically reattached.

oBWWR TIL 42% of men and 44.2% of women in Japan aged from 18 to 34 are virgins