Today's random discovery

[brooksmoses]

"[In] Great Britain, many Victorian-era locomotives were specially equipped to prepare tea."

Because of course they were. You're driving a thing that is basically a large tea kettle, obviously you will want tea at some point, a convenient solution is obvious.

Comments

[conuly]

Well, they could always have used iodine to purify the water. Of course, then the water tastes like iodine and not like tea, but you can't have everything.