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TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved the Life of Abraham Lincoln’s Son

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AoEw TIL In 1990 Noam Chomsky wrote “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
LQNAQ TIL the flag of the state of Georgia is just the flag of the Confederate States of America with an additional emblem.
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