nescent78 t1_isnd3nn wrote
Reply to comment by littleday 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
Ooooooh that makes so much more sense.
I lived in Perth for 8 months and locked down on the ice part
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