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TIL that in the United States, there are at least 17 counties, 70 towns and cities, 10 squares, 33 streets, 14 schools, a hill, a park, a river, four hotels, a mountain, and two theaters named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War.

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