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TIL The Statue of Liberty was Originally Designed as an Egyptian Woman

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GYRZ5 TIL of the Puck Fair in Killorglin, Ireland. The locals find a mountain goat and bring it into town. They then have a young girl crown it as the Puck King. They then take photos with it, put it up in a tower and party for the next three days.
GYKgQ TIL Sanora Babb was writing a book about the Dust Bowl but John Steinbeck stole her notes to write The Grapes of Wrath, and as it was felt the market couldn’t support two books about the subject, her book remained unpublished until 2004.
6ENZJ TIL the Unabomber was a math prodigy, started at Harvard at 16, and received his Masters and his PhD in mathematics by the time he was 25. He also had an IQ of 167.
WaR9 TIL of “Reichstag fire”, a term used to denote a calamitous event staged by a political movement, orchestrated in a way that casts blame on their opponents, causing the opponents to be viewed with suspicion by the public. The Reichstag fire was seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
dDebB TIL The word uwu is included in the Royal Spanish Academy's word observatory which is Spain's official royal institution that ensures stability of the Spanish language.