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TIL After Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 US presidential election, he tried to change 'Hoover Dam' back to it's original name: 'Boulder (Canyon) Dam', but by then the name 'Hoover Dam' was too popular with Americans, and 'Boulder Dam' failed to catch on.

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