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TIL In 1828, 40-year-old artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature portrait of her own breasts imbued with a "paleness and buoyancy" and gave it to a U.S. Senator she may have wanted to marry. His family kept it for over 50 years and it now hangs at the Met Museum.

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5YExR TIL Grenades are named after the French word for Pomegranates, due to their bulbous shape being similar to early grenades.
QJ0KE TIL that for years before slavery was banned in Canada, African slaves in Canada escaped south to the free areas of the US.
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