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TIL: In 1939, Australians coped with heatwaves by sleeping on beaches, staying social outdoors, and using creative cooling methods like wet towels. This was before refrigeration and AC became widespread

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ydLp TIL The Mercenary Group “Blackwater” that changed its name to “Xe” to get away from media, is still around and now goes by the name “Academi”. They still have contracts with the U.S. in the middle east.
ADBww TIL: In the 1800s, Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer set out to write an ambitious guide to all the nations on Earth. She had never set foot outside Shropshire. She was horribly misinformed about virtually every topic she turned her attention to. And she was prejudiced against foreigners.
0orL TIL The Larvae of the Planthopper bug is the first living thing discovered to have evolved mechanical gears. They’re located in its legs and enable it to jump at an acceleration of 400Gs in 2ms.
l1wr Til, Al Gore’s house uses 20x more electricity than the average american.
wa4Y TIL that all of the notebooks in John Doe’s possession from the film ‘Se7en’ were actually filled to the brim with dark, nonsensical musings. Several members of the art department spent several weeks and $15,000 on them, and their actual contents were only featured during the opening credits.