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TIL that Vietnam had it's own "Vietnam War" when they invaded Cambodia in 1978 to free that country from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, but eventually got bogged down in decade-long unpopular war which saw them as a foreign invader being attacked by the local population.

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