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TIL that British General Bernard Montgomery was asked for his advice on The US War in Vietnam. He said that the US had no coherent strategy and no central oversight. He then asked Moshe Dayan to tell the American military authorities, that he thought they were crazy.

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Y7v7Z TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa began to tilt early in it's construction. In an effort to compensate for the tilt, engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other. Because of this, the tower is curved.
D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
DxrJ TIL that Guillermo del Toro left years of notes for a film in the back of a cab, he thought it was the end of the project. However, the cab driver found them and, realizing their importance, tracked him down and returned them. It made Del Toro ever more determined to complete “Pan’s Labyrinth”.
mMdy TIl that after a classified Corona spy satellite’s film capsule was found by Venezuelan farmers and broken open, the US realized that labeling it “Secret” was a bad idea. Later capsules offered in eight languages a reward for returning it to American officials.
xVDKo TIL that there are 2,620 people on death row in the United States as of January 1, 2020.