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TIL it is illegal to deny the holocaust in 17 countries

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W7Nl9 TIL: During 7/7, the US Army Band played the UK anthem outside the British/DC embassy in remembrance of the victims. This mirrored the Queen Guards' performing the US anthem outside Buckingham palace on September 13, 2001 in remembrance of the victims of 9/11
p8AeZ TIL there are white rainbows, called fog bows.
BgwDx TIL that John Quincy Adams won the 1824 US Presidential Election despite only winning 32.7% of the Electoral College vote
x6k41 TIL about the Davy Crockett - a tripod mounted gun developed by the US during the Cold War. It fired a tactical nuclear warhead with a range of up to 4 miles and a yield that caused fatal radiation within a radius of a quarter of mile
JYBLm TIL Abraham Lincoln replied to a critic questioning emancipation by writing: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that"