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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.

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lANV TIL of Hugh O'Flaherty, a priest who saved the lives of 6500 Allied soldiers and Jews during WWII by hiding them in farms, homes and convents. He was a master at disguises and evaded capture by the Gestapo many times earning him the nickname “Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”.
4XDn6 TIL in 2014 Oklahoma botched the execution of a man who died of a heart attack after 43 minutes of writhing, groaning, speaking, and even attempting to leave the table, due to untested drugs
6RAl TIL that Hitler was not a German Citizen until age 32
8a9wZ TIL that an Indian woman defended her father from three gunmen that had broken into their home, and fought them off. She disarmed one, attacked him with an axe, then killed him with his own gun, before shooting and wounding another as he made his escape.
XEMaR TIL that in 2002, Warsaw’s mayoral candidates played against each other in SimCity 3000 to show who was better at managing a city.