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TIL Nero loved frozen fruit and drinks. He personally invented a method of distilling water and freezing it by adding snow to cool it down, which he was very proud of

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M69m TIL in a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.
yQg7l TIL of the Cocoanut Grove fire, a deadly nightclub fire in 1940's Boston that led to laws requiring clearly lit exit signs and outward-swinging exit doors; it also saw the introduction of the now-widely used Lund and Browder chart, which estimates burn sizes on burn victims.
Oo4d4 TIL that the United States by far has the most tornadoes in the world, averaging 1,274 per year in the last decade while Canada reports nearly 100 annually.
0AGA TIL that the 5th US Congress and John Adams mandated health insurance for privately employed sailors and created a socialized government-operated Marine Hospital Service in 1798 by passing the “Act for the Relief of Sick & Disabled Seamen.”
aPPN TIL If two identical clocks were set to the same time, one on top of Mt. Everest and one at sea level, 4.6 billion years ago when Earth was formed, there would be a 39 hour difference between them today due to gravitational time dilation.