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TIL: In 1989, Trump paid $85,000 for an ad pushing death penalty for 14 year old boy who was later exonerated of the crime. Even though proven innocent through DNA testing, Trump still refuses to apologize

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RAg7 TIL when Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.
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wLklJ TIL Robert E. Lee owned a plantation across the river from Washington DC until the start of the civil war. The Lees abandoned the home and the Union army occupied their land, ultimately burying Union war dead there to spite Lee for his treason. It is now Arlington National Cemetery.