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TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.

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XL0R TIL that in World War II, German soldiers in American POW camps were sometimes allowed to leave without guards on the honor system, visiting nearby towns. Black American guards noted that German prisoners could visit segregated restaurants that they could not.
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