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TIL that in the town of Hartford Connecticut, during the colonial times, voter receive a booze infused cake slice, after the church considered christmas as pagan and banned the christmas treats.

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MwPa TIL that no special effects were used to achieve zero gravity in the movie “Apollo 13”. Through 612 flight parabolic, approximately 4 hours was spent filming on board NASA’s “Vomit Comet” The KC-135, an aircraft designed to train astronauts for the weightlessness of space.
wM01 TIL that there are currently living children of Civil War Veterans 150 years after the war, who can still recall their fathers’ war stories.
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