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TIL: When Andrew Jackson became president of the USA, he was given a two-ton wheel of cheese as a gift from a farmer in New York. He left it in the White House foyer for a year and at his farewell party, he let everyone take as much as they wanted of it, leaving Jackson with barely any leftover.

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