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TIL secret coolers were built into Victorian homes to work as old school fridges via outside vents.

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WkQyA TIL Bernie Madoff cornered the prison market on Swiss Miss hot chocolate
W7e4A TIL that dyslexia had affected some of the most significant figures in history, including Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Stephen Hawking. According to the University of Cambridge researchers, these people are better at solving problems and adjusting to changes
e104 TIL that the oldest operating school in the world is The King’s School in Canterbury, England, at 1,420 years old. It was founded in AD 597 during the Late Antiquity era, 100 years after the fall of Rome.
b9vL4 TIL that the Lakota tribe has their own version of the Slenderman legend called “Walking Sam”, who wears a stovepipe hat and tries to make you commit suicide.
wom08 TIL that in a 1972 World Cup qualifier, an error by U.S. Soccer caused the U.S. team to be short-handed, requiring a fan from the stands to start the game