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TIL that the US “Credit Card Act of 2009” contains a provision allowing people to carry guns in national parks [section 512].

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oBew8 TIL that when George Washington died in 1799, the British Royal Navy was ordered to lower their flags to half mast. The London Morning Chronicle opined that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.