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TIL the average height of adult women in South Korea went up 20.2 cm (8 inches) from 1896 to 1996.

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YpdWd TIL of the National Defence Corps Incident. When a South Korean force of 406,000 suffered 300,000 casualties from starvation, disease and mass desertion due to High ranking officers embezzling funds earmarked for the purchase of food supplies.
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