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TIL China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles as it gave the German leased territory in China to Japan, and therefore had to sign a separate peace treaty with Germany

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gpX9 TIL of Barnes Wallis, who in WWII not only invented the “bouncing bomb” which bounces on water to a target, but also the earthquake bomb which creates a 3.6 mag earthquake and was the largest non-nuclear bomb in the war.
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