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TIL Edward Song Lee, a Korean American was shot and killed mistakenly by his peers when protecting shops near 3rd street during the LA riots. Lee and Hector Castro were the only two deaths in Koreatown during the LA riots.

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XGD8 TIL Interracial Marriage was not fully legalized in the USA until a 1967 Supreme Court Case
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