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TIL that since 1949 all Treasurers of the United States, whose signature is on all dollar bills (along with the Treasury Secretary’s), have been women

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Gy1N TIL that the first non-Caucasian pro basketball player, Wataru Misaka, later declined an offer because the “salary for a rookie and the salary for a starting engineer weren’t much different.”
nXRb TIL that Great Britian still owes 30 Hawker Hurricanes to Latvia. Latvia ordered and paid for them before the 2nd World War.
7rvoO TIL about Polish photographer Zofia Rydet, who at the age of 67 began her project 'Sociological Record' to document every household in Poland. She took over 20,000 photographs before her death in 1997.
YYwP TIL there have been over 2,000 nuclear bombs dropped on the world since 1945.
5YgBn TIL the Latin expression 'et cetera' is a word-for-word translation of the earlier Greek phrase 'kai ta hetera' (and the other things). Such a borrowing is called a calque (tracing, close imitation), which is itself a loanword from French.