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TIL that The statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), was recycled from a refused similar project supposed to sit next to the Suez canal.

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pbPp TIL that upon hearing his former Vice President John C. Calhoun’s talks of secession in the 1830’s, President Andrew Jackson said to him “…"if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”
GYA97 TIL that the Polish government wrote a White Book with proof of the mass extermination of jews in german occupied Poland and gave it to the United Nations on December 10th, 1942.
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