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TIL the first soda was actually invented in the 1700s not the 1800s

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VMx5Z TIL that a comic book writer adopted two black daughters and wanted a comic book character they could relate to, so he made Miles Morales
yV8nl TIL that aqueducts are water channels that use gravity to move water from a source to a destination. An ancient Roman aqueduct used only a 51 foot height difference to push water down a 31-mile-long path, resulting in as little as a 1-inch drop to push water 1,500 feet.
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