This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Ever been the first to do anything? Maybe you set a school athletics record? Invented your own drink? Created a game? Well, something I know you weren’t the first to do was parachute from a thousand meters. Why? Because that honor fell to the obviously unhinged Frenchman, André-Jacques Garnerin. Just soak in this dude’s magnificence: By trade, Garnerin was a hot air balloonist (what a career), but…

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