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TIL that “The Rainbow Fish”, a children’s book meant to encourage sharing and giving, is criticized as “promoting Socialism”.

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yQR0w TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.
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