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TIL that there is a giant statue of Jesus in Poland that distributes WiFi to nearby towns and villages

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LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."
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