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The French tried to build a canal here
before the Americans.

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At the height of their effort,
500 workers...

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... were dying every week
from malaria and yellow fever.

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They couldn't come up with
cemetery space fast enough...

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...not to mention the morale problem
all those crosses would have made.

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So they bought shiploads
of vinegar in Cuba...

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...and in each barrel,
they sealed one corpse.

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And then they sold them
as medical cadavers all over Europe.