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TIL that indigenous people in Australia were systematically massacred well into the 1900s. The last massacre, by the Western Australian police, took place in 1926

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epkn4 TIL in 1858, as Congress was debating slavery in Kansas at 2:00AM, a large fight of 30+ Members erupted on the House floor. After the sitting house speaker banged his gavel and threatened to arrest noncompliant Members, the "melee dissolved into a chorus of laughs and jeers."
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