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TIL in World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.

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4lra TIL until 1992 it was not required for electrical appliances in Britain to be sold with plugs at the end. Often the consumer had to attach it themselves.
KY9a4 TIL: Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy
v1E8 TIL that in 1985 Philadelphia, The Police used a chopper to drop a self-made bomb on top of a highrise fortified by cultists, fired more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and shot at cultists trying to escape from the house. The fire they tried to escape, started by the police, destroyed 65 houses.
erYn TIL that frankincense smoke is psychoactive and incense may act as a weak drug during religious ceremonies.
mx9Gx TIL about Emma Willard, a women’s rights activist who dedicated her life to education and founded the first school for women’s higher education in 1821.