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TIL: Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with boiling vessels allowing them to make tea.

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KOleG TIL all human males' paternal ancestor (their father's father's father...) converge on a single man who lived around 200 thousand years ago. The most divergent lineages are found in tribes in Cameroon, suggesting the man lived around there
W069 TIL the director and animator of Ed, Edd, and Eddie was shot 8 times by police officers while unarmed. It was caught on video.
mxNro TIL: Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Morehouse in the 60’s for locking board room members in a room for two days protesting the schools curriculum, one of the hostages was Martin Luther King Sr.
RlV1 TIL in Assassin’s Creed every named character you kill is not only a real historical figure, but their death in the game is in the same year and location as their death IRL.
p8MK4 TIL of the groundscraper, the opposite of a skyscraper, which is a building like the Pentagon or Apple's headquarters with relatively few stories but greatly extends horizontally.