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TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history - the Panama Canal.

l7WVB TIL: I don’t have to set myself on fire to keep other people warm.
0LLN TIL Cuba and Venezuela were the first countries to offer assistance after Hurricane Katrina.
16n84 TIL: Gouda cheese is pronounced "how dah"
m1mwx TIL - Dogs use the Earth’s magnetic field when they’re relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis.
eAan TIL That Sony Created an OS to Turn Any Older PS2 Into a Desktop Computer In 2002