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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