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Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.
GEY4 TIL: Lottery winners in the U.S. tended to move house immediately to areas of established privilege, whereas Canadians tended to renovate. Nearly 80% of winners from both countries quit their jobs (often to their regret), and many who kept working were alienated from co-workers.
GO65 TIL the CNN “Technology Specialist” who speculated that “the hacker known as ‘4Chan’” was “a systems administrator who knew his way around and how to hack things” is now a radio anchor and technology contributor for Fox News.
wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.
kO7O7 TIL the phrase "another day, another dollar" comes from construction workers building the Panama Canal, who were paid a dollar a day