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KYo8G
TIL: During the US Civil War, a Minnesota regiment captured a confederate flag, during the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), from the Virginia army. Virginia's made many requests over the years to return the flag, even getting Congress and the President to request it and each time Minnesota has refused.
6EKkJ
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awNQ0
TIL that for the last 100 years, Minnesota's been refusing requests from Virginia to return a captured Confederate Battle flag; in 2000 Gov. Jesse Ventura responded “Why? We won. ... We took it. That makes it our heritage.”