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TIL there was code included in Windows XP solely so that Lego Island (1997) would run

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l77MK TIL just after WW2, the US occupied two provinces of Northern China with 50,000 marines to repatriate the 600,000+ Japanese soldiers and Korean conscripts still in China after the war since neither Japan nor either side of the Chinese Civil War were logistically capable of doing so at the time.
QJQWa TIL in Finland some children read to dogs and cows because they actually like listening and are extremely attentive.
455o TIL Farmers forcibly bypass the adolescent years of fruit trees by attaching a mature branch to a newly planted stem. The process known as grafting can also be used to grow two plants together such as tomatoes and potatoes on one plant. http://ift.tt/2rGjQpu
6VoJ TIL that Carlos Hathcock, USMC in Vietnam, crawled inch by inch, 1500 yards for 72hours straight to assassinate an NVA General, narrowly escaping being bitten by a viper, and almost being stepped on by a NVA soldier. He successfully completed the mission, and escaped the same way he had entered.
69XKY TIL the hummingbird is the only bird able to fly backwards