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TIL that Florence mills’ house was designated a landmark, but it was the wrong house. The right house had been demolished. This marks the only time a landmark in New York City has been stripped of its label.

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a8WEL TIL that Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola"), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens and herds of cattle and horses
Z8YY TIL that, unlike Miss America, Miss Navajo Nation is chosen based on her knowledge and skills… one of which is sheep butchery.
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