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TIL William Blount was the first federal officer removed from office for conspiracy to instigate an act of war in order to increase the value of his real estate holdings

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lAp7 TIL “No kill shelters” need to achieve a >90% rate of live adoptions, and may still kill healthy animals as a matter of course.
yQ8lw TIL In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan got four of its members elected to Anaheim, California's five-member board of trustees, giving them control of city government. When the Klan's plan was exposed, their representatives were successfully recalled in a special election the following year.
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