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TIL US continues to violate U.N. Convention Against Torture signed 20 years ago

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QKbe TIL George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, and Oman
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nebxb TIL In 1940, Churchill and De Gaulle briefly supported merging France and Britain into a single nation, with joint citizenship, a single currency, and a constitution.
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