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TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters

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69MQW TIL that American sculptor, Anna Coleman Ladd, crafted 185 face masks for returning First World War veterans with facial disfigurements from wounds.
vPdyx TIL about the Kissinger death tontine and now someone has won "a selection of liquors from countries where Kissinger has overthrown the democratically elected leader."
OGaW1 TIL in a 1931 essay about on the future of science, Winston Churchill advocated for lab grown meat, predicted long distance communication through an internet-like system, and theorised that we'd be able to artificially cultivate humans based on our needs, but the moral debate would prevent this
BZNL TIL That if you called in a bogus distress signal to the Coast Guard and they sent a 378 WHEC Cutter to your rescue, the reimbursement cost is $17,602 per hour
a8Y6N TIL that butterfly pea flowers, used as ornamental plants and to colour gins like Empress 1908, is scientifically named Clitoria ternatea because it resembles a human vulva.