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TIL that Snapple once tried to break a world record for largest Popsicle, but instead it melted and covered Times Square in pink goo

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YpAY7 TIL of Frederick McKinley Jones - an orphaned black American who, in the 1930s when racial segregation was the norm, invented the first successful automatic refrigeration system for trucks. This lead to the development of supermarkets and better combat-zone medical supply.
NXAgM TIL more people die from drowning in deserts than from dehydration.
d8AxZ TIL A guy quit his job and practiced golf for 6,000 hours to put the theory of "intensive practice" to the test and become a pro golfer
j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
woOBW TIL: The Colorado River is going to dry up in about two years. Reservoirs could drop so low by 2025 that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam to Arizona, California and Mexico.