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TIL of the My Lai Massacre, where a company of American soldiers killed over 500 civilians of My Lai on March 16, 1968. The incident was covered up for over a year and only one man was convicted.

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kJAK5 TIL about George Francis Train, a man who ran for president on a platform of "Spread-Eagleism."