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TIL that the Statue of Liberty walks over a broken chain and shackle, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. They represent freedom and the end of servitude and oppression.

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D15Be TIL That President Andrew Jackson owned a parrot named Poll. When Jackson died Poll was present at his funeral, but had to be removed due to "Swearing and yelling profanities" that he learned from Jackson himself
4JEw TIL John Adams, before becoming the second U.S. President, was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while the other two were convicted of manslaughter and given reduced sentences.
Y71MA TIL Jacques Lusseyran went blind at age 7. At age 14, alarmed by the Nazi's rise to power, he learned German to understand Hitlers speeches. At age 17 he was leader in the French resistance, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was among the 990 out of 2000 French prisoners to survive.
WkeGX TIL of Australian Soldier Jim Moody, who smuggled Horrie, his battalion's mascot back to Australia after WWII, violating quarantine laws. Ordered to surrender Horrie to be destroyed, he purchased another dog from a pound and surrendered it, and Horrie lived many years.
8a6kL TIL American Gothic depicts a farmer and his daughter not his wife.