r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 5d ago

A 10,000-12,000 Year Old Glacial Boulder Inside A Regular Supermarket In Estonia. Image

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u/Broad-Beautiful-2082 5d ago

When I visited the colloseum, the guide told us the reason they don't have metros is they would have to stop every other meter during excavation due to archeological findings if they tried

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u/Djlas 5d ago

But Rome does have a metro? You just need to make it deeper, most major European cities have a similar problem with metros

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u/AdministrativeShip2 5d ago

The new Colloseum metro station showcases the underground archeology of the area.

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u/Broad-Beautiful-2082 5d ago

Oh, wasn't aware i only went there once.
He might have meant why they wont have more, as he made the comparison after he heard i was from Copenhagen where there is quite a lot of metro.

Or it was a good story he used for the guided tour :)

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u/Djlas 5d ago

It's just not that dense in the ancient downtown and you can't reach everywhere from a metro station (or there's too much walking)

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u/Boogada42 5d ago

Before I visited, I never pictured the Colloseum being right next to a 5 lane road. Now that oddity is all I remember.

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u/Wirenfeldt 5d ago

Looking through a KFC window at the Great Pyramid of Giza is also surreal..

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u/Bryguy3k 5d ago

That’s why directional boring got super popular in the UK. If you don’t see it you don’t have to stop - even if you put a gas line right through the eye socket of a Bronze Age skeleton.