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The Roman aqueduct of Segovia, Spain is still standing despite being over 1,800 years-old. It was so well designed & constructed in the 100's AD that it didn't require cement or mortar to hold the stacked granite blocks together. It kept supplying water to the city until the mid-19th century.
Did you know that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins? By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes, while dolphins need to come up for air after about 10 minutes.
Can you wrap your head around these unbelievable wildlife facts? - BBC Bitesize
The image captures a poignant moment as the seven crew members of the Space Shuttle Challenger make their way to board the spacecraft. Tragically, 73 seconds into the launch, the Challenger exploded and disintegrated, resulting in the loss of all seven lives on board.
Simone Segouin (1925-2023), a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German Nazis in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun in 1944 (photo taken in 1944, she was 19 at the time)
Simone Segouin - Wikipedia
The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew crying on national television while announcing the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, 1965.
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Despite croc like appearance, Prionosuchus was an amphibian and one of the largest to evolve (9 m long and 1.8 tons), they would have lived in the humid and tropical environment of the early Permian Brazil (299-272 mil. years ago) with their paddle like tail, they can propel themselves in the water
On March 11, 2005, Kevin Berthia spoke with Highway Officer Kevin Briggs for 92 minutes, ultimately prompting him to step away from the ledge and not take his own life. Now Berthia works as a suicide prevention advocate and has a family with 2 beautiful children.
Yeah no shit - or actually, quite a lot of it.
How anything can survive in that quagmire is beyond me, I can only assume that the dolphins live upstream of most of the population centres.
What's the worst that can happen
The isle of Aogashima is home to a town built inside the active volcano - 170 people live there.
