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TIL Lizzie Borden, who is famous for killing her Father and Stepmother with an axe, was actually acquitted of all charges.

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6979W TIL there is a quarter scale replica of the Statue of Liberty in Paris. It's located on an island in the river Seine and given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.
oBY6R TIL that Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea's infant son who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, later befriended a German Duke, lived for a decade in his palace, learned a dozen languages fluently, became mayor of a California city, struck gold, and made a fortune on buffalo tongues.
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