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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/I_notta_crazy on 2025-01-28 11:23:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the statue atop the US Capitol building was going to have a liberty cap (the old Roman symbol of an emancipated slave), but future Confederate President Jefferson Davis made the sculptor remove it.