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TIL Concrete Used in Ancient Rome was More Durable Than the Concrete Used Today

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8ag64 TIL: In 2006, at the time of PS3’s launch, each console was sold at a loss of around US $240 per console, while the Xbox 360 lost around US $125 per console when it launched in 2005.
7rbnr TIL that Bruceploitation was a practice where filmmakers hired Bruce Lee lookalikes to cash in on his popularity after his death. Some actors even changed their names to sound similar to Bruce Lee
na8G TIL that in the 1960s Nintendo manufactured a toy called Ultra Hand. made of criss-crossed plastic elements that enabled its user to pick up objects. It was very successful and helped save Nintendo from serious financial difficulties. Its inventor went on to create the Game Boy.
ZpKxQ TIL David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the UK during WW1, didn't support appeasement because he disliked Neville Chamberlain
8aZKb TIL that at one point the Chicago River was so dirty from the city’s waste that it made the water from Lake Michigan undrinkable. To remedy this Chicago reversed the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River