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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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p8rAO TIL of the "Jefferson Bible." Thomas Jefferson cut-and-pasted together his own version of the philosophical and moral teachings and doctrines of Jesus, "notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural," including his resurrection.
nW9nW TIL in Quebec Canada babies come with manuals.
8eK5V TIL cuttlefish were commonly used throughout Greece and Rome for their reddish-brown pigment. Cuttlefish were called sepia in Latin and Greek, hence the English sepia.
DZBe TIL Scientology obtained their tax exemption from the IRS by having P.I.s dig into the personal lives of IRS managers and initiating hundreds of law suits against IRS employees. Eventually Scientology offered to drop all suits for religious tax exemption and the US government caved.
8DoX TIL there was a game called Perplex City which involved clues on playing card to find a cube with a prize of 100000 pounds. One of the clues was called “Billion to One” which featured a man and Japanese text that translates to “Find me”. He is still missing to this day.