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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.

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6EGdm TIL of the Plum Island Pink House. The wife in a divorcing couple forced her ex-husband to build a replica of their family home as part of the divorce settlement. She didn’t specify the location, so he built it in the middle of a salt marsh and plumbed it solely with salt water. It’s uninhabitable.
8KvV TIL Sture Bergwall, Sweden’s most notorious serial killer who was incarcerated after confessing to at least 30 murders and crimes such as rape and cannibal, was later found to have been a manipulative liar. He never actually killed a single person.
v4WD TIL: the British Army developed a tank-mounted kettle for making tea after losing a WW2 battle because the crew had abandoned their posts for a tea break
kOOmm TIL Boba Fett (bounty hunter of Star Wars fame) didn't make his debut in Empire Strikes Back. The character's first appearance was in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
e0B4L TIL The first man-made object to reach the stratosphere was a meter long shell fired from the Paris Gun, used by the Germans in WW1 to bombard Paris from 80 miles away. The curvature of the earth had to be considered when calculating where the shells would land.