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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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7kgZ TIL in Sweden it is legal to sell sex for money, but illegal to buy it.
bVnp TIL the Greek Navy commissioned a technologically-accurate trireme to be built in 1985, and that ship was used to prove that the legendary feats of ancient Athenian sailors were easily achievable with even untrained crews.
0wlJp TIL in 1687 John Moore, a Black man living in England, bought his way into the elite body of the City of York, granting him the right to bear arms, fish in the city's rivers, and graze his animals on the city's meadows. He remains the only Black person awarded the Freedom of the City of York
06Ay TIL that scientists at Edinburgh University successfully made diamonds from peanut butter using extremely high pressures, even greater than that found at the centre of the earth.
J7E4 TIL During the Islamic Golden Age (~750- 1258) all citizens had free health care