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TIL The first use of commercial refrigeration was in Australia to keep beer cold.

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7r5Kx Today I Learned the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff resulted in the loss of 9,400 German citizens. This makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking, however it is a rather unknown event due to being overshadowed by all the news of WW2 ending around the same time.
j6ERQ TIL about the Dalma Culture, a Prehistoric Archaeological Culture of North-Western Iran dating back to the Fifth Millennium B.C. with their Settlement Patterns showing No Signs of Social Hierarchy
dBnd TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon became the first music heard on the moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette
6v5X TIL X and Y chromosomes weren’t named for their shapes, it’s entirely coincidental that they look that way during mitosis!
e1BD TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000