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TIL during the lead-up to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, tearing it down and replacing it with a fiberglass replica was considered.

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rRvn4 TIL out of all the countries that were required to pay reparations from World War II, Finland is the only one known to have paid its bill in full when it sent $300 million to the Soviet Union in 1952.
685J TIL That according to Vin Diesel, the voice of Groot in the movie the Guardians of the Galaxy, he recorded Groot’s iconic line, “I am Groot,” over 1,000 times.
W4wA TIL Poland’s Boy Scouting association was transformed into an armed resistance force during WWII and fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials, and liberated a concentration camp
xDd5 TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”) are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word “acorn”.
pxeN TIL In 1987, the US Army’s Night Stalkers stole an Russian attack helicopter from a desert in Chad