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D1RJr TIL Empty Fort Strategy strategy involves using reverse psychology to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes. In 195, warlord Cao Cao used it to make his opponent think there was an ambush, which bought him time to prepare a real ambush
aWB0 TIL that Aragorn and Arwen were first cousins… 63 times removed.
njwP TIL that the Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.
DQEyp TIL that if you scatter someone’s ashes at Disneyland, they order a cleanup with “Code Grandma.”
YVkr TIL that the petals of a sunflower are actually each single-petalled flowers; a sunflower is actually a cluster of hundreds of flowers.