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A Chinese joke about the USSR

by cringeyjokesman July 1, 2022, 9:21 am

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TIL that Keye Luke (Number One Son, Blind Master Po from Kung Fu, and the old shopkeeper from Gremlins) was a successful artist before he was an actor. He painted murals for Grauman’s Chinese Theater, illustrated books and sheet music, and designed movie posters, including one for King Kong.

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 7:03 pm

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TIL Mongolian beef found in Chinese restaurants isn’t Mongolian in origin. It actually comes from Mongolian BBQ shops in Taiwan. Mongolian BBQ style restaurants were created by a Taiwanese entrepreneur in the 1950s.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 7:29 pm

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Chinese Feudalism: The Zhou Dynasty

by HistoryBuff June 18, 2022, 6:34 am

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TIL that the bell at the NYSE was originally a Chinese gong until 1903, at which point the exchange was moved and the bell was changed to a silver bell like the one we know today.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 6:31 am

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TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL that in 1893, Oregon Governor Sylvester Pennoyer was asked by the Grover Cleveland Administration to use his resources to protect Chinese Americans. Pennoyer responded to the request via a telegram which simply told the President to mind his business.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 3:25 pm

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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.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 11:59 am

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TIL Ancient Chinese doctor and surgeon Hua Tuo was executed by King Cao Cao when he suggested performing a surgery by cutting into his royal skull

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 4:04 am

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Monkeys singing chinese

by CopyPastaArchive June 5, 2022, 9:19 am

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TIL on June 4th the Chinese government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded

by whatilearned June 4, 2022, 6:09 pm

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Full Leak of the Chinese Main Battle Tank field manual

by CopyPastaArchive June 4, 2022, 8:34 am

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