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TIL The reason Roman structures survive so long is because they used volcanic ash in their concrete, which slowly transforms to aluminum tobermorite when exposed to sea water. Something modern scientists have been trying to do for decades.

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ZpwbG TIL the Colorado River doesn’t make it to the ocean anymore — since 1960
mxJp TIL NASA chose Cape Canaveral as their launch site because it has a higher linear velocity than other sites in the US.
NYAE TIL 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer. Several frosts and snow across New England destroyed crops and led to starvation.
AAwa TIL: If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol. (#16 on the list)
mx8Eo TIL that many of the hangings during the Nuremberg trials were carried out with short rope that caused prisoners to die a long, lingering death from suffocation, rather than an instantaneous death from a broken neck.