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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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0d6Vj TIL when Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft had an asteroid named after him, he wrote a constitution for it's future inhabitants including articles that forbid use of imperial measurement units, outlaw the use of apostrophes, and limit the length of tax forms to one page.
kO6Ke TIL of Bill Weaver, the man who fell 78,000 feet from and SR-71 Blackbird test flight at Mach 3.2, and survived.
R7aMw Today i learned Bela Lugosi was buried in one of his "Dracula" costumes at the request of wife and son.
gMkg9 TIL the Antikythera Shipwreck of the First Century BCE, discovered by Greek sponge divers, yielded artifacts including art, jewelry, a statue of Herakles, coins, but most importantly the Antikythera Mechanism, interlocking gears that computed the movements of the sun, the moon, and eclipse dates
9YwPM TIL When Half-Life 2 had its source code hacked and leaked, Valve offered the hacker a job interview so the FBI could trap him into admitting his responsibility for the hack and arrest him.