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TIL that the cost to raise a child in the US has risen by 111% since 1999 but median income has gone down by 9%

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MeLEB TIL In 1990 Disney wanted to put Minnie Mouse on the $5 bill of their in house currency and promote it as the first woman on a dollar bill. It was then revealed that Martha Washington on a $1 bill in 1891. In reality Pocahontas was even earlier, appearing on a $20 bill in 1863.
6nbY TIL Texas elected a female governor in 1925—after her husband, a previous governor, was impeached and convicted and barred from holding office. She campaigned saying as governor she’d follow his advice.
vpkx TIL: the world’s 4th largest lake has dried up to less than 10% its size and is now a giant desert, dotted with shipwrecks.
loEQ1 TIL that “goodbye” derives from the 1570s saying “God be with ye.”
91kp TIL that the first Grand Wizard of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, tried to disband the group after he thought that they had become too violent.