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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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8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
p8Ax8 TIL that in the Book of Job, Job does not maintain his faith in God's goodness — he even repents for his doubt.
GAv9g TIL the sound of Mr. Krabs walking is the sound of 2 crab leg shells clinking together.
jgLN TIL that phones sold in Japan permanently have the shutter sound turned on so as to deter up-skirt photography
m8WO TIL: Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition. they had to give 30 days warning