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TIL Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.

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GY857 TIL Winfield Scott developed the Anaconda Plan, capture the Mississippi River and blockade Southern ports, but it was derided by most Northern newspapers and Scott eventually left Lincoln's administration. Ultimately Grant used a strategy similar to Scott's Anaconda Plan to win the Civil War.
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