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TIL Albert Einstein holds a patent for a refrigerator. He created the device after learning a faulty fridge seal killed a family in Berlin. It was rendered obsolete a few years later by the invention of Freon.

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7ropM TIL Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.
lJnA TIL A cult leader once gave 600 acres of land to God but the State of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because the Almighty didn’t pay His taxes.
X0aLQ TIL that American founding father Aaron Burr was an early supporter of giving women education and the right to vote. He was also a notorious womanizer who frequented sex workers and fathered multiple children with many different mothers, including an Indian servant who worked in his house.
1pd8 TIL because of the “Harlem Shake” hundreds of students have been disciplined, fifteen Aussie miners fired, and there is even an FAA investigation.
x69vk TIL in a survey released by the Database Center For North Korean Human Rights and NK Social Research in Seoul, around 18% of 407 North Koreans said they were willing to return to the North, most of them citing nostalgia