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TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally designed in the 1860s for Egypt. Named 'Progress Carrying the Light to Asia', French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi modelled the statue after an Egyptian woman dressed in a veil. Due to costs, the idea was rejected, and a lighthouse was erected instead.

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kDPe TIL the German word, backpfeifengesicht, that roughly translates into meaning “A face that needs to be slapped (or punched).
xVE97 TIL Seneca Village, a predominately middle class black neighborhood, was demolished to make room for Central Park
WXG4 TIL that when Princess Diana was stripped of the title “Her Royal Highness,” a young Prince William told his mother “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
GOa5 TIL of Frank Nelson Cole. At a 1903 meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Cole—while remaining completely silent—showed on a chalkboard an important new proof by, among other things, calculating 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287 by hand. He sat down after an hour to a standing ovation.
LQQRP TIL Salvador Dali collaborated with Walt Disney on a short animation in the 40s