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TIL That C4 is relatively stable unless detonated by a blasting cap, meaning it was used as an improvised fire starter in the Vietnam war, where it simply burned like a piece of wood.

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lDZ1 TIL that China produces 73% of all of the world’s watermelons, and 17.5 times more than the next most productive country, Turkey.
wopKM TIL that in the 1960s, thanks to the Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair, it was possible to fly across the English Channel with a car. The aircraft could carry up to 5 of them at a time, with an average of 22 passengers.
yQQXv TIL Doctors use Coca-Cola to dissolve human hairballs (gastric bezoars). Instructions: drink 10 cans within 12 hours.
pEjb TIL that conditions seemed so bleak in America during the Great Depression that people in Cameroon sent $3.77 to New York for food relief
WmKX TIL Danish philosopher Søren Kirkegaard published his works using amusing pseudonyms (perhaps best of all, Hilarius Bookbinder). Everyone in Copenhagen knew that Søren was the author, so at times he added to the title page of a book the scholarly note that it had been “edited by Søren Kierkegaard.”