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The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock has started running in Iceland

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M7O08 TIL about Roman Vomitorium's, a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance i.e. to spew out of a venue. They were not rooms dedicated for feasts for people to binge and purge.
LkrXm TIL that people who are in favor of "e daí?" are putting the lives of innocent people
Mowa TIL: The Murphy bed is named after William L Murphy who needed a way to hide his bed in order to have a girl over to his one bedroom apartment b/c of the moral codes of the times.
61XZ TIL in 1997, there was an episode of Goosebumps called “Click.” In it, a kid gets a universal remote, uses it to pause his sister, change the color of his fish, fast forward through time, etc. 9 years later, Adam Sandler starred in a movie of the same name with a similar premise.
N7vM6 TIL that for over a century, locals in Meghalaya, India have been using trees to build root bridges, known locally as jing kieng jri. Taking 15 to 30 years to grow, they can span up to 250′ above gorges and rivers and support up to 35 people at a time.