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TIL about the Roman Goddess Minerva. It's considered as the equivalent Greek goddess Athena!! Over time, she was attributed to goddess of almost everything; art, wisdom, protection, etc.

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6EdBw TIL Starbucks' "Frappucino" is a registered trademark that act as a sub-license out of the Netherlands. When you purchase a beverage, your money goes to pay a trademark fee, which Starbucks books as losses, and the entity in the Netherlands pays little to no tax on the trademark revenues.
VMpbG TIL about the thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. During the maintenance of a ship, all the parts are eventually replaced, is that still the original object? If the discarded pieces are reassembled, is that now the original ship?
ZO4G TIL that at one point in the 1970s, 1 out of every 204 working Americans was employed by Sears
KOe69 TIL National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. It wasn’t George Washington face, The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.
W7xd4 TIL Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian pastor who believed in the power of teaching through example which he felt would be just as powerful as preaching.