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TIL British tanks have hot water boilers for brewing tea.

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yVvQl TIL that there are only 8 bear species in the world. I don’t know how I’ve gotten this far without thinking about how I’ve never thought about any of the bears outside this chart.
9w7e7 TIL some dolphins have tried to mate with some swimmers and divers…
JYVZk TIL On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype
peDb TIL The writers of Rugrats were huge fans of Doctor Who, and actually based Tommy off of the Doctor, as a charismatic and whimsical leading character. Along with his trusty screwdriver!
5YWLR TIL that RMS Olympic offered to take on survivors of RMS Titanic, however the captain of Carpathia refused, claiming that the survivors would be traumatised if they were asked to board Titanic’s identical twin