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TIL that Hawaiians who were sent to the leper colony at Kalaupapa were also declared legally dead

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NX7n6 TIL On 21 April 1918, Manfred von Richthofen, better known as ‘The Red Baron’, was shot and killed while flying over Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River, and that he was honored by those that killed him.
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