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TIL British people tend to be “bi-measurement” the same way some people are bilingual. Both imperial and metric units factor into their lives.

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Ya0A TIL that while in the Congo, “James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, bought an eleven-year old girl and offered her to cannibals in order to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.”
x6e9B TIL all British main battle tanks are equipped with a "boiling vessel", a water heater which the crew can use to boil hot water and heat meals. Introduced at the end of WW2, it is often referred to by tank crews as "the most important piece of equipment in a British armoured vehicle".
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mx44M TIL that about 85 percent of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some hospital areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, but those heavy-duty designs also make it hard for a cell phone signal to make it through but not pagers.
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