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JYl1v TIL French author Antoine Saint-Exupery actually wrote The Little Prince in Long Island, NY after fleeing France during the German Occupation in 1940. There was also a brief reference to New York in the original transcript that ended up getting cut.
oBAB7 TIL: From 1919 to 1969, college home economics programs in the US would rent babies from orphanages for young women to practice mothering
jNp0j TIL they make power tools for amish people that are powered by compressed air instead of electricity