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

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KxYw TIL When asked why nerve gas was not used in Normandy, Hermann Göring said the Nazis were dependent upon horse-drawn transport to move supplies to their combat units, and had never been able to devise a gas mask that horses could tolerate
69NaW TIL a "bum gun" is a type of bidet that resembles a garden hose with a hand-spray nozzle. They're so commonly found in Thailand (both Western-style and squat toilets) that politicians were outraged upon learning their parliamentary building didn't have what some refer to as "ass blasters".
4XnRR TIL Ray Lewis grew up using a deck of cards to do push ups and sit ups. If he drew a 7 he would do 7. An ace was 25 and a Joker 30. He would go through the whole deck. In the nfl, he would do it 3 times for each exercise. Also the reason he wore 52 was because of the number of cards in the deck
KrjG TIL that paternity tests are outlawed in France and Germany “due to fears that more families could be broken by divorce if all fathers were given access to them.”
R7dka TIL When Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a child, his parents bribed him (kind of) into doing commercials by saying he could buy anything he wanted with his earnings. He bought a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine.