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TIL that U.S. schoolchildren used to say the Pledge of Allegiance using the “Bellamy salute” (more recognizably the salute used by Hitler and the Nazis). In order to prevent further confusion or controversy, US Congress instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture.

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