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TIL Every single British tank has a built in boiling vessel so the crew can have cheeky mid-battle tea breaks

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xVam1 TIL that George Washington illegally rotated his enslaved personal chef, Hercules, between the Capitol and Mount Vernon to avoid laws that would free him. Hercules eventually escaped to freedom.
jZWE TIL there is a satalite time capsule that will be launched in 2014 and orbit the Earth for 50,000 years. Every person on Earth is invited to leave a message in the capsule via its website
AD1wd TIL Alex Trebek married his second wife, Jean, when he was 50 and she was 27. They've been married 30 years.
Yy7P TIL Japan imports rice from the U.S. as required by the World Trade Organization, but almost none of it ever actually reaches Japanese dinner plates. Instead, the imported rice is donated to North Korea, fed to pigs, or left to rot in vast Japanese warehouses, sitting in storage for years.
DDnP TIL that John Wayne died of stomach cancer, which is highly suggested to have been caused by filming downwind of a nuclear weapons test. Wayne refused to believe the fallout caused his cancer and instead attributed it to his smoking. However, 90 others from the movie also developed cancer after.