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The_Thunder_Child t1_ismqv4k wrote

Reply to comment by Dwarf-Lord_Pangolin in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

You mean that place that had only just been discovered and was a frozen abyss and killed almost everyone who went there?

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joedude t1_ismwx5r wrote

This question is the real treat of the whole thread.

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