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TIL the first presidential debate in the United States was held in 1960, and debates between US presidential candidates were not held regularly until 1976

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e0ag4 TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
PDkL TIL that some police departments in the U.S. are starting to create Internet Purchase Exchange Locations so that Craigslist or similar transactions can be conducted in an area with video surveillance and police presence and keep participating parties safe.
MeAm8 TIL Many people in the United States believe that the Nazis were a left wing party.
PY0xe TIL: Hitler has commited another genocide besides the Jewish Holocaust. Histestimate that between 220,000 and 500,000 Romani were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
7rxvx TIL that Captain Planet took on Hitler.