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Life & fun · February 3, 2016

99% Invisible - The Ice King

How New England ice made its way to India (no, really)

99% Invisible - The Ice King launched on February 3, 2016 with 60 votes, #1,423 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In the mid-19th century, decades before home refrigeration became the norm, you could find ice clinking in glasses from India to the Caribbean, thanks to a global commodities industry that has since melted into obscurity: the frozen water trade.

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