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TIL The Statue of Liberty was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt

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0wojp TIL Cambodia has never experienced severe famine in its modern history other than during Pol Pots "Super Great Leap Forward"
AlvB TIL Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin, passed on the project to another developer in 2010 and has since disappeared. No one knows who he is or where he went.
4Xm9R TIL that Buzz Lightyear was originally conceived as a "Dudley Do-Right" kind of character: dim-witted but cheerful and self-aware. He was then re-envisioned as an action figure who isn’t aware that he’s a toy, and who therefore takes his job as an Intergalactic Space Ranger quite seriously.
yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
VM1J8 TIL of the 'Cannonball Run.' An illegal road race from New York to Los Angeles held five times during the 1970's. The record time was 32 hrs and 51 minutes.