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The Roman Concrete Research Department had 200 years of trial-and-error to get the strongest concrete.

I’m quite sure they poured hectares worth of varied concrete mixture ratios and different material.

Probably had a guy with a sledgehammer have had given it a daily whack on each of the thousand of test plots.




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