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JYN6Q Today I learned the St. Francis dam disaster was one of the most catastrophic civil engineering failures in American history.
VMAYQ TIL about the organisation that lets you “buy” an acre of threatened rainforest for around $100 to protect it from deforestation.
Alog TIL that although over 55,000 people die every year from rabies, as of 2011 only three ever survived the disease once symptoms were present, using a technique involving an induced coma.
vPV6x TIL that Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at age 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, would make him one of the wealthiest men in the world.
9Y6OG TIL that loopholes are the slits in castle walls that archers fired from, and that's why finding the loophole is finding a way to circumvent security measures in place