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TIL that during the Vietnam War, American troops would consume small amounts of C4 explosives to get a "high" similar to alcohol.

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voeB TIL Vatican City has the lowest age of consent (12) in Europe.
4XXXw TIL in the first Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Marge warns parents of the content of the episode advising them to put their children to bed. The warning was put in as a sincere effort to warn young viewers, as the producers felt it was somewhat scary.
kJlE5 TIL the BBC programme "The Black and White Minstrel Show," with white actors performing in blackface, aired for 20 years ending in 1978. Once, in 1967, as an experiment, the network aired a version where black actors performed in whiteface.
XE8ED TIL WWII Japan's production of the famed Zero was hampered because the Mitsubishi factory in which they were made did not have its own airfield. Completed Zeros were hauled by oxen to an airfield 24 miles away. A shortage in feed supply starved the oxen, stranding newly made aircraft at the factory.
yyMX TIL Cambridge Bay, Canada, has no cars but GOOGLE responded to a proposal by a resident to include Arctic communities in Street View in order to “educate the rest of the world.” He used a tricycle fitted with a camera system.