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TIL: In 400BC, the Persians invented a way to make ice in the desert using evaporation cooling

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DQv7V TIL that in Iceland, you are able to revoke your ex's rights to your surname
P6Zg TIL there’s a sixth extinction event which is still ongoing and mostly caused by the arrival of humans
v1L9L TIL there is a genetic form of insomnia called Fatal Familial Insomnia which results in the inability to sleep, hallucinations, and eventual death of the patient with a few years.
wL14E TIL TED held its first conference in 1984 and included presentations from Apple, Sony and other professionals. It was a finalcial flop and it took 6 years for them to organize the next event in 1990.
LBpZ TIL a homeless man was found decapitated with a severed chicken head shoved in his neck. An occult detective predicted that the Santeria cult took his head to make a brain stew, and that they would return the head in 42 days. She was taken off the case, and the head showed up 42 days later.