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TIL: Washington DC isn’t square because Alexandria county was returned to Virginia.

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AKLw TIL that Noshir Gowadia, one of the lead engineers for the B-2 stealth bomber, is serving a 32 year prison sentence for selling classified information to the Chinese Government (in particular cruise-missile and jet related stealth technology).
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rNKXM TIL during the Civil War, the US government started printing bills in fractional dollars, rather than coins, due to a metal shortage. Congress passed a law forbidding living people to be on money after the bills' designer put his own face on them, rather than a US president's.
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