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TIL of Winthrop Niles Kellogg. He attempted to "humanize" a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like.

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mxKEP TIL that the Statue of Liberty was orginally intended for the Suez Canal. When the Canal neared completion, the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi requested to build a sculpture he named "Egypt Bringing light to Asia" at the canal's entrance. When he was denied, he went with his ideas to New York.
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