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TIL George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox, reducing a 17% death rate from the disease down to 1%

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QNMNp TIL there are 'To-scale' remote controllable toys that cost as much as a full size used vehicle.
69VDZ TIL that when the Ottomans invaded Wallachia, they found 23,844 impaled Turks, that Vlad The Impaler had left for them.
b96v7 TIL that the US and UK directly interfered with Australian independence, effectively eliminating George Withlam, an advocate who opposed nuclear testing who was democratically elected, with a political coup to install John Kerr in 1975.
epPbJ TIL Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are the sponsors of USS Enterprise (CVN-80), and are technically considered permanent members of the ships crew.
bea TIL that on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British lost 57,000 soldiers. For comparison, the US only lost 58,000 during the ENTIRE vietnam war.