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TIL of a cookie coffee cup insulated to drink coffee and eat the cup after

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4kDow TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.
yQMR8 TIL that an A10's gun is so powerful that shooting it halfs the planes forward thrust
mxYME TIL Of The Boltzmann Brain. The idea that one day in the infinite age of the universe, a self aware entity will be created by thermal fluctuations that occur randomly in the universe.
EgJ5X TIL that Because English and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with volunteers from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
loE0r TIL green tea, black tea, oolong tea all come from the same plant. The only difference is the oxidization level of the leaves.