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TIL Vladimir Putin publicly stole a Super Bowl ring from NE Patriots owner Robert Kraft during a trip to St. Petersburg in 2005

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LyYZ TIL the famous painting of the people in the park has a twin painting that depicts working class people on the other side.
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YpLgW TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."
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