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TIL in 2004, a man named Brian Jones purchase the house where much of A Christmas Story was filmed and restored it. Then he opened a gift shop across the street, museum next to it.

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0ww1j TIL that Roman concrete, subject to marine corrosion, has stood for over 2000 years, while modern cement can break down in as few as 50 years. The concrete the Romans used contained volcanic ash and got stronger over time: the ash was slowly replaced with Al-tobermorite, a rare hydrothermal mineral.
MZXb TIL that planting swastikas in the forests of Germany was “a fad among National Socialist foresters” during the Nazi period and nobody noticed them until decades later.
Edg7 TIL That in 2006 one of Saddam Hussein’s Generals who defected wrote a book about the operation to move WMDs from Iraq to Syria before the US invasion.
dDLrr TIL in the beginning of 20th century, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was ended bc the British Empire refused to accept Japanese proposal of Racial Equality Clause. Turning the later World War 2 moral positions on its head.
ZnwB TIL that Mandy Patinkin left Criminal Minds at the start of season 3 because he was deeply disturbed by the content of the series