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TIL that by 400 BC Persians had developed a type of building that produces ice in winter and stores it throughout the summer in a hot desert climate

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9wkZX TIL that less than 1% of nuns in the US are under 40 and the average sister is 80 years old.
Ga4g TIL: Stress makes people perform badly because it takes up space in the ‘working memory’ making less memory available for performing the task at hand
7rPOP TIL That the highest recorded blood alcohol content ever recorded was a polish man who had a BAC of 1.48. He got in a car crash but likely survived due to his drunkenness but later died due to the injuries of the crash
p8kdZ TIL Vince Lombardi demanded "Nothing But Acceptance" from players and coaches toward all people, and he would immediately terminate a coach or release a player if that particular person insulted the sexual orientation of gay players and front office staff.
XEAEj TIL that we originally discovered how digestion work because a man named Alexis St. Martin developed a fistula in his stomach after a gunshot wound. The physician placed bits of food on a spoon and inserted them into the mans stomach through the fistula in order to observe the process of digestion.