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TIL that President Lincoln personally selected the Dakota who were hanged in the largest mass execution is US history.

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7rbAP TIL of the existence of Greg Stanton's Ten Stage Model of the Genocidal Process & how tolerance for diversity is one of Greg Stanton's prescribed antidotes to prevent genocides from occurring.