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  "textContent": "Before refrigeration, keeping things cold meant waiting for winter, cutting up a frozen lake, packing it in sawdust, and hoping a lot of it survived the boat ride.\n\nVeritasium has a great video on Frederic Tudor, the Boston merchant who helped create the commercial ice trade in the early 1800s. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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