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TIL Miami, FL has not reached 100F since 1942.

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rNB1d TIL about the 1863 Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), a military codified law that governed the wartime conduct of the United States Union Army, making it one of the first armies in human history that prohibited r@pe, looting, arson, etc., with the punishment often being execution.
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