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TIL about 'Big Bertha', one of the smartest confidence women in America. Her scams were ingenious.

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e01MJ TIL Joe Jamail was a billionaire Texas attorney, infamous in legal circles for his aggressive nature and colorful vulgarities (i.e. "you could gag a maggot off a meat-wagon"). He earned internet notoriety for a deposition video where he tried to fight the opposing counsel and the witness.
ogRo TIL The Russian Civil War was so intense, their alphabet lost 4 letters by the end.
v1nV7 TIL that in order to build one of the largest dams east of the Mississippi, the US forcibly displaced at least 600 Native American families from their homes, and then built on the fertile “reservation” land.
oYYr TIL the most successful interrogator of WWII preferred friendliness to torture. The U.S. military later incorporated his methods into its curriculum at its interrogation schools. Many of Scharff’s methods are still taught in US Army interrogation schools.
78eLX TIL Due to atmospheric anomalies, during WWII a farmhouse in Rhode Island was able to intercept enemy radio transmissions from around the world | Even German tank-to-tank communications in North Africa