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TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally supposed to preside over the entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Sa'id, Egypt.

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kO9WE TIL, in the 1st century, the first vending machine was created. It lowered the product by using the weight of a coin. What did it sell? that’s right, vials of holy water.
9aWX TIL that the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, was just 19 when he wrote the book in 1969. He later disavowed the violent ideology that he advocated in the book and wished to have the book “quickly and quietly go out of print”. He passed away in July 2016.
d8Oor TIL The New York Times was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, with the first color photograph on the front page appearing on October 16, 1997.
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