What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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Eynsham Red Nov 2020 6:37pm, 22 Nov 2020 6,732 posts	0 Eynsham Red [...and hypocausts! And I think that they introduced the fashion on installing open air swimming pools on the top of tall buildings (but I may have got that wrong, although there is one in Aqua Sulis)]
FergusG Nov 2020 6:40pm, 22 Nov 2020 4,054 posts	0 FergusG [All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?]
swittle Nov 2020 6:42pm, 22 Nov 2020 70,048 posts	0 swittle [Chapter in the Bible?]
Eynsham Red Nov 2020 6:54pm, 22 Nov 2020 6,733 posts	0 Eynsham Red [One of them fiddled while Rome burned]
Wriggling Snake Nov 2020 6:57pm, 22 Nov 2020 28,925 posts	0 Wriggling Snake The Roman's introduced us to The Popular Front of Judea.
Eynsham Red Nov 2020 7:03pm, 22 Nov 2020 6,736 posts	0 Eynsham Red Welease Woderwick!
Raemond Nov 2020 7:04pm, 22 Nov 2020 6,763 posts	0 Raemond (the baths in Bath were actually always enclosed. This was quite important, as the people who got very ill when the main bath was made open to both the public and the sky in the 70s, iirc, discovered. Some nasty bacteria flourished with the addition of sunlight, apparently)
Cerrertonia Nov 2020 7:29pm, 22 Nov 2020 13,436 posts	0 Cerrertonia [It was the British, rather than the Romans, who introduced earthworms to New England and Canada though.]
Eynsham Red Nov 2020 7:32pm, 22 Nov 2020 6,737 posts	0 Eynsham Red [New England and Canada hadn’t been invented when the Romans were here]
jabberknit Nov 2020 9:46pm, 22 Nov 2020 3,714 posts	0 jabberknit That my husband and I have more in common in these plague-dominated days than I realised. I discovered this evening that we had both received emergency vaccinations during a smallpox outbreak in 1962, mine in Bradford, W Yorks, his in Newport, S Wales. The outbreak had the same source, spread to different parts of the country by incoming travellers from Karachi. We both remember having very painful arms for weeks afterwards (mine got infected and is an unpleasantly vivid early memory).