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TIL due to an error caused by a failed switch to the Gregorian calendar, Sweden had February 30th on their calendar in 1712 -

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4XWyg TIL Mao Zedong was personally struck by the loss of his own son, Mao Anqing, during the Korean war, a war he had effectively started. North Korea and China commemorated each’s support in their struggle against the United States and there is a Chinese soldiers cemetary north of Pyongyang
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