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mxvWO TIL that the Russians partied so hard after the end of WW2 was announced that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka.
9wA56 Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.
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