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TIL that pinball was illegal in NYC for over 30 years

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7BX7 TIL that every Treasurer of The United States since 1949 has been a woman.
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GYk7j TIL the editors of Webster's Dictionary see dictionaries as keeping record of social usage of words rather than defining what a would should mean.