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

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xQJg TIL in 2013, Melbourne, Australia assigned it’s trees individual email address with the idea that if citizens had any concerns they could make reports. The plan backfired due to people sending love letters to their favorite trees.
gE8A TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.
l7OV1 TIL Facist and F**got are both derived from the same Latin root word fasces meaning bundle of sticks
Bggmr TIL that the packaging colour for air-dropped humanitarian ration packs had to be changed from yellow to salmon after someone realised that the same shade of yellow was also used for air-dropped cluster bombs.
ADMog TIL that Deland McCullough, former NFL player, and current RB coach for the Chiefs, was given up for adoption at birth in 1973. He found his birth mother in 2017. She told him the name of his father, who turned out to be his college coach and mentor throughout his adult life.