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TIL “Reading Rainbow’ was cancelled because of President Bush’s "No Child Left Behind”

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b69EQ TIL that Tennessee's has a state artifcat - the Mississippian stone statue, a statue of a kneeling man carved by an unknown Native American artist between 1250-1350. It was discovered in Wilson County in 1939.
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