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TIL about Hanno II the Great, a Carthaginian aristocrat from the 3rd century BCE, who twice sabotaged Carthage's war effort against the Romans in the 1st Punic War, and the 2nd Punic War, simply because he wasn't personally gaining anything from either war.

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