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TIL The founder of the American Nazi party was murdered outside a laundromat by one of his own supporters.

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oB5Mr TIL until 2013, in Paris it was illegal for women to wear pants.
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LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons
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