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TIL There’s an app in development that rewards people for not being on their phone and forces them socialise together

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b9EZ9 TIL that since 1944 all British tanks are equipped with a BV, Boiling Vessel, for making tea, it is considered by crewmembers (not entirely in jest) as the most important piece of equipment in a British armoured vehicle.
DQB6p TIL journalist Dan Rather was fired after reporting that Bush did not finish his time at the Air National Guard using inauthentic documents as evidence
7okP TIL Western science hadn’t yet discovered the Gorilla when Darwin was writing ‘On The Origin of Species’
rN1Dx TIL if you have net worth of $93,170 (USD) you are wealthier than 90% of the world.
XAk6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China