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TIL about a lightweight and low-cost “brick” that is made of recycled plastic and sand that is stronger than concrete material. It was created by an engineer in Kenya named Nzambi Matee

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bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
KOlP6 TIL that in 1974 the Cleveland Indians held 10 cent beer night with the only rule being you could only buy 6 at a time. The promotion resulted in the fans rioting and both teams using bats to protect themselves from the rioting fans.
woE71 TIL: Enshittification is when online platforms optimize the user-experience for their customers; then once they have a following, they alter the platform to claw back all the value for themselves.
mx74p TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.
v17oL TIL that China's nuclear program sought to create both an atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, as well as an artificial satellite. Thus the program's name was 两弹一星 which translates to "Two Bombs, One Satellite".