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TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California

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x6OJb TIL as the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted, the inhabitants knew they would not survive. A team of historians, writers, rabbis, and social workers created a secret cache of documents to record their way of life. 2/3 of the cache survived the war
W7YlB TIL after Crassus defeated Spartacus, the 6K prisoners they took were put on a cross every 100ft on their journey back
P1QoJ TIL about Labadee, a Royal Caribbean owned private beach resort in Haiti complete with a 30 foot wall and armed guards on each side isolating it from the rest of the country. Tourists arrive at a port connected to the resort and never go beyond the boundaries of the resort.
Lok0 TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last name, Schwarzenegger, translates to “dark harrower of the fields” in German.
X07ZQ TIL that relatively unknown band Levellers hold the record of performing to the largest crowd at any iteration of the Glastonbury festival. The record, set in 1994, stands today at 300,000 people.