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TIL the largest lynching in US history resulted in 11 Italian Americans being killed

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4QLg TIL that in WW2 during calls to see if a safe house was convenient to visit the person answering would reply “no, I’m too busy.” If the safe house had been captured and taken over they would reply “yes, come on over.”
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