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TIL that though the roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine go back thousands of years, the modern push for it in China only began in 1950.

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nelBd TIL the USA spent 2 years building a fort to protect from Canadian invasion, but it was accidentally built in Canada. They abandoned construction and called it Fort Blunder.
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