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TIL The Help Celebrate Our 150th American Independence Day in 1926, Poland Presented President Coolidge with a birthday present to America as a big thank you for aid during WW1. The present was an 11 volume, 300,000 pages of 5.5 million (1/6 of population then) signatures from polish people.

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