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TIL: In Operation Paul Bunyan, the United States sent 813 infantry, 27 helicopters, 1 armor to cut down a tree after 2 US soldiers were murdered with hatchets by the North Korean army for attempting to cut said tree.

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8aYJK TIL multiple states on the East Coast of the U.S. had official programs to pressure freed African Americans to move back to Africa.
GrvN TIL that the fuel for each of Nazi Germany’s V2 rockets was made from 30 tons of potatoes.
xVbrk TIL that in 1935 the US Government planted 220 million trees in 7 years to combat Dust storms. It was a huge success and if it was repeated today it would help in the fight against the climate crisis immensly.
Rjga TIL that after WW2, cuttings from Washington DC’s cherry trees–originally a gift from Japan–were sent back to Japan to restore the Tokyo collection decimated by US bombing during the war
MQKV TIL Hamlet has been fully translated and performed in Klingon