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TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. Launched in response to the Korean Axe Murder Incident where Americans trimming a tree in the DMZ were killed by North Koreans, the US went back to cut it down. Bringing with them overwhelming firepower with hundreds of soldiers (some with suicide vests) and air support

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8mQL TIL in 2014 a Greek woman was accidentally buried alive. She was found after a group of children heard screams coming from her grave.
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