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BgdJW TIL Sushi was invented in China, not Japan, and was a way of preserving fish in salt.
5VnXD TIL Every single British tank has a built in boiling vessel so the crew can have cheeky mid-battle tea breaks
8a1pa TIL that Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a Wall Street broker noted as "the only Black millionaire in New York" about a decade before the American Civil War. He amassed a fortune of $2 million ($250,000,000 in 2018 dollars) by the time of his death in 1875. He was known as "The Prince of Darkness"
QNxjd TIL that Beethoven originally dedicated the Symphony No 3 to Napoleon Bonaparte. However Beethoven withdrew the dedication upon learning that Napoleon crowned himself Emperor.
VxAm TIL of Yi Qi, a small feathered and winged dinosaur. While many dinosaurs had feathers and what could be called “wings” in a sense, Yi Qi had a bat-like membrane connecting its third finger to its side, making it look like a real world dragon (or wyvern for pedantry).