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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xe3to on 2025-07-03 05:45:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the United States actually achieved legal independence from Britain with the passage of the Lee Resolution, two days prior to the Declaration of Independence. Wrote John Adams: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America”