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TIL the "Einstein refrigerator" is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the US on 11/11/1930.

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R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.
j6ZLQ TIL that in 2012, prior to her wrestling career, WWE’s Gigi Dolin starred in a season 1 episode of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. In the episode her family spends big money on a dress to help find her a suitable bachelor. She was 14 at the time.
7r5ep TIL Freddie Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where he began taking piano lessons at the age of seven while living with relatives. Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter's School near Bombay. It was here when he started calling himself "Freddie".
NGP1 TIL there is an amusement park in Nara, originally created to mimic DisneyLand in the US. The Park is now abandoned and looks awesome!
xVYXB TIL: In the early 1900s, some American parents started the trend of transporting their children by mail. The first child to be mailed was 8-month-old James Beagle. He was sent a few miles away to his grandmother for 15 cents (insured for 50 dollars). The process was made illegal a few years later.