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Intensityintensifies t1_ispizaj wrote

Reply to comment by Urag-gro_Shub 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

Or people just weren’t little bitches.

Im just kidding. I grew up in the Midwest and drink frozen pond water sounds like a bad time. Maybe they imported the ice and stored it in the ice house?

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Urag-gro_Shub t1_ispwox1 wrote

I have these pictures from about 1910ish, in the bottom picture you can see my neighbor's house. Guess standards were just different?

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TheSpoonKing t1_isqhzmv wrote

of course the water is gonna look black in an early monochrome photograph being exposed by a blanket of snow under the sun...

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