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TIL U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War would sometimes ingest a of a small amount of C-4 to produce a "high" similar to that of alcohol

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ANwel TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
NXGlM TIL in 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight. He later died in 1785 attempting to fly across the English Channel, becoming the first victim of an air crash.
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