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TIL that in 1930, the Soviet Union built a plant to make polybutadiene, a synthetic rubber used for tires, out of ethanol from potatoes

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baQZ TIL that the Letters of last resort are written by the UK PM and tell what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. The letters are sent to four submarines that will open the letters if they don’t receive a UK naval broadcast for four hours straight, assuming that a nuclear strike had occurred.
vPPyr TIL banana planks can actually walk and move up to 40cm in a lifetime
WkADN TIL over 300,000 of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II are still alive as of 2020
ApKw TIL Star Wars production assistant Ian Bryce arrived on set to find a note from the Ewok actors saying they all had quit and were on their way to fly home. After panicking, he was relieved to see the Ewok bus pull up in the lot, with all the actors wearing ‘Revenge Of The Ewok’ t-shirts.
KOBlw TIL British Overseas Territories citizens are not allowed to live in the UK