Post #4007577

TIL that for 50 million years, dead trees didn't decompose because the microbes capable of digesting wood hadn't evolved yet. The dead trees just piled up miles deep, eventually being crushed into the massive coal reserves we use today. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1v31gn3/til_that_for_50_million_years_dead_trees_didnt/ "To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once the first or even second or third floors of ancient buildings, built at the time of one of the city’s empires when men thought that the future was going to last for ever. And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls." @MAJ1@beige.party