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TIL a Marine Corps veteran by the name of John "Chick" Donohue snuck into Vietnam in 1967 during the ongoing war simply to deliver beer to his friends in combat.

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OXpa TIL The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with a his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen.
yQRPJ TIL it was once believed "Crack Babies" did not like to be interacted with and could not learn like normal children. They were not treated like normal children and were given poorer early childhood care and education. When these practices were stopped most of the problems they had went away.
R0Ej til that play-doh was originally invented to remove wallpaper
vPNEL TIL About a nearly 90 year old man who fought under the Soviet Red Army in WW2 against the Nazi's. He spent almost 3 decades in prison for actions against the Tsarist Government.
wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.