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TIL that by 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert

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E1rw0 TIL the rendering of the Death Star plans in the original Star Wars was created by two students using computers at JPL. The writers and staff planned to thank JPL in the credits, until one programmer pointed out that JPL didn't even know their computers had been used.
8RrZ TIL That Physicists successfully teleported a single photon 89miles, using the theory of Quantum Entanglement
XEegD TIL of an Eating Disorder first coined in 1996 called Orthorexia Nervosa (that is not in the officiall not in theDSM-V) where sufferers of this ED have an unhealthy obsession and fixation on food quality, health and purity that is rooted in food and eating restriction.
B6jb TIL Treadmills were invented to punish English criminals!
6974Q TIL New Guinean tribes attempted to domesticate cassowaries eighteen thousand years ago