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TIL that by 400 BC, Persians had developed Yakhchal, Ancient Refrigerators capable of storing solid ice in the summer in the desert

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NXmbM TIL that while Secretary of War in the Pierce administration, Jefferson Davis revolutionized the United States Army. It increased in size, and troops were given better equipment, better training, and increased pay. Davis would go on to fight a war against this army a mere four years later.
agNb TIL It takes the whole year’s crop from one Cocoa tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.
78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
v1OB7 TIL in 1961 Bill Mitchell of GM ordered his team to paint a concept car to match the colors of a dead shark mounted in his office. Many attempts failed, so one night the team kidnapped the fish and painted it instead. Mitchell never found out and was happy with the team's duplication of nature.
16gX8 TIL of Pope Stephen VI who instigated the Cadaver Synod in which he ordered a trial of deceased Pope Formosus on grounds of acting as Bishop after he was deposed. The corpse was exhumed, propped up upon a throne. A deacon stood behind answering questions as the deceased. Formosus was found guilty.