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TIL the United States has had multiple capital cities in the past including New York City, Princeton, and Trenton.

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8WmZ TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House
aaVo TIL that due to clerical errors, Mississippi didn’t ratify the abolition of slavery until 2013.
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