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TIL about Sand Castle, a beach house made of steel & concrete, which can survive 250mph winds

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lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
PYO6e TIL that the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is believed to be over 5,000 years old. Rumpelstiltskin and Beauty and the Beast are thought to be around 4,000 years old.
b9eY4 TIL “Hitchen’s razor”, the concept that something asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, predates Christopher Hitchens by hundreds of years.
8aa1G TIL that some people think of natural disasters as manipulated disasters, and that society creates the circumstance of a disaster by denying victims the opportunities to properly deal with naturally destructive events.
woPQY TIL The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by twelve countries who agreed to only use the continent for peaceful research purposes. It entered into force in 1961 and has since been acceded to by 56 total nations.