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TIL the first recorded use of the phrase "any port in a storm" was the 1749 erotic novel "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."

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VDG8 TIL that the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty - “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” - are by Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus, from her poem “The New Colossus.” The quote was added to the pedestal 17 years after her death.
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