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TIL that before WW2, there was another United Front between the CCP and the KMT against warlords in China.

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PDPg TIL that chimpanzees fight wars like humans. Happend 1974-1978 in Gombe National Park. It is called the “Four Year War of Gombe”. Two parties fought, and one party won the war by extermination of the other. Jane Goodall observed this war and was frightend by the brutality.
4k4nb TIL that hummingbirds can fly backward because they can manipulate their feathers to change pitch, which affects whether they move up or down, and yaw, which affects whether they move right or left.
78yAO TIL you can stay in a hotel in Japan for $1 a night if you agree your entire stay to be livestreamed 24/7
aRjN TIL that since most people in Japan and China use their phones or computers to phonetically convert the Latin alphabet to type Chinese characters, more people are forgetting how to write some characters by hand. On a Chinese TV show, only 30% of participants could write “toad”, 癞蛤蟆 (Lài há ma).
YDBW TIL the 5th Amendment protects someone from revealing the source of their illegal income, but not the amount.