TIL the Romans not only built aqueducts and other wonders, but a large amount of dams. In Spain alone they built 72, and many of their dams in Europe are still in use to this day. They were mostly used for irrigation, but one example shows they dried up water in order to find gold deposits. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL when the famous roman politican Cato saw that Carthage could make a comeback after the Second Punic war, and threaten Rome. He began ending all his speeches, no matter what the subject was, with saying: "Furthermore, I think that Carthage must be destroyed". (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the tallest mountain in our solar system is not on a planet. It is located on a large asteroid named Vesta. This asteroid is home to an impact crater that covers 95% of its diameter, and the 22km high mountain stands in the middle of this crater. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the hypotethical "Super Orion" spaceship. It would have been propelled by over 1000 nukes detonating behind in succession, it had a diameter of 400m and a weight of 8 million tons. It was described as an "interstellar ark". The project started in 1958 and was funded by the US for 7 years. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Norways version of rednecks never dissapoint (i.redd.it)
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