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TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. An retaliatory show of force for the murder of American soldiers trimming an obstructive DMZ tree. The mission was to destroy the tree and was conducted with attack-helicopters, B-52 bombers, over 12,000 soldiers and an aircraft carrier. The mission was a success

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epQR4 TIL a 2008 study found that the quantity of bumper stickers on a car was a predictor of road rage. The more stickers, the more likely a driver is to exhibit it. The stickers are a good indicator of a driver's territorial disposition. The more territorial one is, the more violent one is prone to be.
M7VK0 TIL that Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (zombie-ant fungus) has its own fungal hyperparasite sometimes referred to as the "anti zombie-fungus fungus" which limits its effect on ant colonies
ADZpa TIL King Sejong invented Korean Script out of a desire for universal literacy. "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days
7rjY7 TIL about Francesco Corbetta. He brought the guitar to the rest of the world and was one of the first people to write complex plucked music for the instrument. If it wasn’t for him, the guitar would be a folk instrument restricted to Spain and Italy.
R7o94 TIL that in 1915, surrounded and faced with imminent defeat, the entire Serbian army and government, numbering 400,000 (~10% of the population), retreated through Albania to the sea and evacuated to Greece. Half of them died on the march, but the rest came back in 1917 to liberate their country.