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TIL that British tanks are required to have a tea brewing station

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4X67J TIL that domesticated and wild dogs scavenge human remains in different ways: pet dogs tend to eat their owners' faces, while wild dogs prefer to eat the nutrient rich organs located in the abdomen.
6ED78 TIL Many cargo aircraft can be temporarially converted into passenger transport using "palletised seating". Seats come on individual pallets, just like how air freight is normally carried, and is easily installed in the same way too, without any physical modification to the aircraft.
yGAw TIL: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima At least twenty-three US servicemen were in Hiroshima when the bomb fell. They were prisoners of war, former aviators, held at several locations in downtown Hiroshima.
kODMe TIL during a car accident a sodium azide pellet is ignited by an internal car sensor and explodes generating toxic/highly-explosive gas at a 250 mph velocity which undergoes a series of chemical reactions before turning into a non-toxic, stable silica glass... and that's how your airbag is inflated.
PbxG TIL There is a type of ant that can explode suicidally, spewing poisonous adhesive secretions all around them.