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TIL that the burning of the U.S. flag is a form of symbolic speech and is protected under the 1st Amendment

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dO1Z TIL: Nazis destroyed Germany’s largest institute focusing on human sexuality in 1933 that studied and advocated for Gay and Transexual rights, burning their extensive library and research as it was deemed “Un-German”.
6PJW TIL Chinese checkers is a a German variation of an American game. It was later introduced to the Chinese by the Japanese.
0w5Zy TIL more than half the American deaths in the War of 1812 were from Kentucky
KWw TIL- A man lived for six hours after falling into a vat of molten zinc heated at 450 degrees celsius.
b9Jr9 TIL That the 'Live aid' concert in 1985 was trying to raise money for a famine in Ethiopia. However the money ended up funding Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and his genocide regime. The money he received went to "buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians" used to crush his opposition.