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TIL The Roman Colosseum was sometimes flooded to re-enact sea battles

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ne0Oo TIL 600 years ago the Japanese placed ancient stone markers along the coastline to warn future generations not build there due to the risk of tsunamis
NBeb TIL: A perpetual world calendar (matching days of the week with dates every year) was nearly internationally adopted after WW2 until organized religion ended the attempt.
9MYQ TIL that the Hawaiian island of Niihau has a population of 130, comprised of native Hawaiians. It is closed off to non-Hawaiians with the exception of a few tours and hunting safaris. On the island they speak Hawaiian and at the school they are taught to survive off of the island’s resources.
VgLB TIL: When Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Animation, Hayo Miyazaki personally chose not to attend the show because he “didn’t want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq”
4k45N TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.