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TIL that the first American novel is considered to be "The Power of Symphony", published in 1789

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knQm TIL if you wanted to recreate the entire LEGO movie, you would need 15,080,330 LEGO pieces.
ADGra TIL: fossilized vomit is thing and it's called regurgitalite
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