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TIL why Roman concrete was and is so strong!

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b9Lba TIL there's a well in thu UK that turns items into stone
M7YMa TIL President Woodrow Wilson let a flock of sheep graze on the White House lawn. They saved manpower by not having to mow the lawn while also raising $52,823 for the Red Cross through wool auctions.
x6yM1 TIL that five of the six highest wind speeds ever observed in a tornado occurred in Oklahoma and two of those even occurred on the same day.
kwAE TIL that John F. Kennedy’s official presidential portrait depicts him in a pensive state because the painter, Aaron Shikler, did not want to paint the eyes of a dead man.
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