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TIL The US doesn’t have an official language.

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JYPlV TIL that within 10 minutes of Allies landing on Omaha beach D-Day 1944,every Officer of the first wave Alpha Company had been killed. 30 minutes later the entire first wave Alpha company had a 96% casualty rate
0ddRR TIL prominent high-fashion designer Martin Margiela had a 1989 fashion show on a playground near Paris. The public were invited, including children, who sat on the ground in front. The kids didn't observe usual decorum as they posed for photos, sprinted onto the runway, and rode a model's shoulders
eQ6g TIL of Exercise Tiger, the training for D-day that ended with 946 American Deaths when 9 German E-boats showed up during the rehearsal and attacked.
7r87p TIL that during the Iran-Contra hearings, Senator Daniel Inouye remarked that "[There exists] a shadowy Government with...the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."
a86KA TIL the party of the president has only won seats in the midterms twice since WW2