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The Lincoln Memorial once had a typo in stone

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You would think proofreading a national monument would be a priority. Instead, an engraver accidentally chipped an 'E' instead of an 'F' into the wall, forcing them to awkwardly fill in the bottom line to fix the mistake.

The Lincoln Memorial once had a typo in stone
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