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TIL crows and ravens can mimic human languages

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9ElG TIL that during the warring states period, the Han sent a water engineer to Qin to build an excessively expensive and pointless canal in order to drain their rival’s funds. However, the canal was a massive success and even today the area is very fertile.
l7LbV TIL: Sally Hemings was 16 years old when she gave to her first child with 51 year old Thomas Jefferson.
Z8w4Y TIL Most modern handcuffs in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Latin America can be opened with the same standard universal handcuff key.
Yp4yG TIL that the voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, Paul Winchell was one of the original inventors of an artificial heart, an automobile that runs on battery power, a method for breeding tilapia, and many other inventions that are still around today.
e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.