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TIL that after two US soldiers were killed by North Korean troops for trimming a tree in the Korean DMZ, the US launched Operation Paul Bunyan(21 August 1976): a massive show of force involving B-52 bombers, fighter jets, and troops with chainsaws, just to finish cutting down the same tree.

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