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TIL Justice Clarence Thomas has only spoken one time in the last eight years during oral arguments in the Supreme Court. The one time he spoke was to crack a joke on Yale college.

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4kV0J TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust
D1eGj TIL that The Hulk was inspired by a woman. Jack Kirby created the character after watching a woman lift a car off of her child, who was trapped underneath.
4yEb TIL Refried beans are only fried once
JYKkQ TIL according to a Kyoto University team, dogs can recognize a bad person & negatively evaluate people who refuse to help their owners.
LkJx9 TIL that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover possessed one of the world's largest collection of pornography, both for blackmail and for personal titillation purposes