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TIL Glutinous Rice Does Not Contain Any Gluten

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rRVw1 TIL In 1832 a Japanese sailing ship travelling from Nagoya to Tokyo was blown off course. In 1834, it eventually ended up where current day Washington state is, with 3 out of 14 crew members surviving.
4jma TIL that in the 1900’s Margarine was considered contraband in 30 U.S. states, and some states felt so strongly about this substance that they required it to be dyed pink in order to make it look less appetizing.
epdE6 TIL The world's first Tokamak fusion reactor will start producing deuterium and tritium plasmas in the 2030s, and just the initial experimental trials will consume the totality of the world's tritium supply, most of which comes from Canada, or Canadian-designed CANDU reactors abroad.
wowOM TIL that sculpting, music, painting and architecture use to be awarded medals in the Olympics between 1912 - 1948
5VnXD TIL Every single British tank has a built in boiling vessel so the crew can have cheeky mid-battle tea breaks