Episode 412
Black Tot Day
Learn more about the British Navy's daily allotment of rum
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
August 22, 202110m 13s
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Show Notes
For several hundred years, the British navy was the most powerful in the world. One of the things which the British navy ran on was rum.
Every sailor on a British ship for hundreds of years was given a daily ration of rum.
However, on one dark day, the tradition of the daily rum allotment came to an end.
Learn more about Black Tot Day and why it saddened a generation of British sailors, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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