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TIL that Carrie B. Shelton was the Woman Who Became Governor 11 Years Before Women's Suffrage

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kXPB TIL that Wan Hu, is categorized as a scientist of the Chinese space program. In ancient China, Wan Hu had attached rockets to his chair in an attempt to fly to space.
JYwgl TIL at the Starbucks located inside of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, customer names cannot be called out or written on cups due to security concerns.
0dZGj TIL that in 1997, Coldplay invited Tim Rice-Oxley to be their keyboardist. He declined, and instead went on to sell 13 million albums as primary songwriter for the band Keane.
rNB64 TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
nWLdb TIL in 1938 a New York wallet manufacturer placed a sample Social Security card inside each of its wallets sold nationwide to show that the cards fit. The card included the real Social Security number of a company secretary. Over the years more than 40,000 people used that same number as their own.