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TIL the NAACP for eighteen years flew a huge flag over its New York headquarters stating, “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” In the wake of the lynching of Jesse Washington.

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MDwa TIL that during the Spanish-American war, a warship sent to capture Guam fired 13 shots at the harbour fort; the Spanish sent an officer out to aplogise for not returning the ‘salute’ as they were out of gunpowder; they hadn’t been informed they were at war.
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