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TIL "This Land is Your Land" was a radical backlash to “God Bless America”

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YlXP TIL the Statue of Liberty’s hand sat in a New York park for 6 years before being installed. While the French paid for the statue, the US didn’t want to pay for the pedestal, so to raise money, photographs were sold to tourists and for 50 cents, you could climb a ladder to the top of the torch.
GAAA1 TIL the hill in the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany is largely made out of rubble from the remains of Munich after the Second World War
1aDn8 TIL that bacteria have sexual intercourse
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