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TIL that the Romans had all the necessary mechanical devices to build a steam engine

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oB0ME TIL that it's impossible to program truly random sequences, due to all software being completely deterministic, which results in all pseudorandom sequences ultimately being recursive
l7ZMV TIL that some sharks can "walk" on land. The epaulette shark can move across land using its fins, a fascinating adaptation that allows it to move between tide pools when the water recedes.
9vB TIL as a promise to a friend dying of bone cancer, a man ran across the U.S. at 16, becoming the fastest and youngest person to accomplish the feat.
R7okw TIL of Australian serial killer William MacDonald. When he left a victim under his shop and fled to another city police failed to link it to the other murders and assumed the rotting corpse was MacDonald, who was declared dead
eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"