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TIL in 400 BCE Persian engineers created a ice machine in the desert.

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j61WN TIL Ross Edgley Swam 1,780 miles (2,860 km) all the way around Great Britain in 157 days
956G TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.
4XGj5 TIL author Ian Fleming was so horrified at the prospect of his impending marriage that he wrote a book to distract himself. In 2 months he finished CASINO ROYALE, the first in a series about a spy named James Bond.
e0nPg TIL that according to legend, Thomas Urquhart, the Scottish aristocrat and polymath, laughed himself to death upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne.
5VMmQ TIL a cat’s tongue is made out of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails