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TIL: The Statue of Liberty's copper skin is incredibly thin, only 3/32 of an inch thick. The copper weighs 60,000 lbs, but the entire 450,000 lb statue is held up by a separate, flexible iron framework designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same engineer who designed the Eiffel Tower.

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