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TIL Guatemala had a 36+ year long civil war during which the government committed mass genocide against the Maya. The military chief became the first person to be convicted of ordering forced disappearances and the president the first former head of state to be tried for genocide by his own country.

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0G8M TIL there are 80,000 SWAT raids on American homes per year
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