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TIL in 1950 the Boyscouts of America ran a 40th anniversary campaign called "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" where they sent ~200 copper replicas of the Statue of Liberty around the US. Despite being over 8' tall and weighing 260lb, many have been lost and now only ~100 can be accounted for.

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WXdN TIL That there was a fire at a Girl’s school in Saudi Arabia which led to the deaths of 15 students because the Religious Police, the Mutaween, would not allow the students to escape because they were not properly covered.
Z8QAR TIL that French Guiana is legally part of France, and not a separate country, in a similar way to Hawaii being legally part of the USA. Technically all maps of France should probably have a window with French Guiana in the corner, the way Hawaii usually appears on maps of the USA.
p8GoQ TIL that the mayor of a South Carolina town barred the researchers who exposed the Flint, Michigan water problem from testing his own city's wells, even after they found high levels of lead in thousands of residential home tests.
OoXwL TIL about the title Nebraska Admiral. The title, which officially grants control of all of the landlocked state's "Navy officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish" to its recipients has been awarded to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr. and Queen Elizabeth II. among others.
NZXE TIL that trains have conical wheels because there is no differential; when the train turns one wheel will travel a greater distance than the other