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TIL the perpetrator of the My Lai massacre had a life sentence of hard labor commuted to 3 years house arrest by President Nixon.

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9YRpX TIL During WW2, the US created information material for its white soldiers about to be stationed in Britain, warning them that they would have to cope with black soldiers joining them in pubs. "It might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home".
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