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Today I learned that a magnitude 8.5 earthquake took place in Shandong, China in 1668, taking an estimated 43k-50k lives.

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9YvxQ TIL Pink Floyd played a concert with no audience at the ampitheatre in Pompeii, Italy 1971 being the first performance to occur there since the eruption of mount Vesuvius in 79AD at the time of the ancient romans
GwVj TIL there have been serious scientific attempts to study whether or not our “reality” is, in fact, a computer simulation a la “The Matrix”
Y70Jd TIL that Making Predictions Impedes the Formation of Memories.Trying to predict what is going to happen next in any given moment impedes your brain’s ability to encode your current moment in memory.
4XaWo TIL Leonardo Da Vinci, a pacifist, invented an armored tank nearly 500 years ahead of its time, but included a fatal flaw in the design (the wheels only spun toward each other) so it could never be used in an actual battle.
99N7 TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson comes from a wide family of American Samoan professional wrestlers called the Anoa'i.