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TIL: In the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of black Americans fled from slavery and prejudice. They sailed to West Africa, and 1847 founded the nation of Liberia: a black ethnostate meant to be a haven for African Americans.
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TIL that in 1861, Abraham Lincoln became an honorary citizen of San Marino.
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TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal