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TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.

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J1d4l TIL Denmark fitted contraceptive coils in half the female population of Greenland (without informing them of what their purpose was or receiving consent) to reduce birth rates in the 60s and 70s. Most of those affected were children.
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