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... that Martha Washington's portrait on the 1896 US one-dollar silver certificate (pictured) is the most recent time that a woman has been featured on US paper money?
... that Dalibor Riccardi, a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?
... that at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was booed for visiting the "wrong" Pennsylvanian gas station chain?
... that Eunus, a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
... that China was once the "Kingdom of Bicycles"?
... that Alan Rosen once sold 2,400 cheesecakes in four minutes to television shoppers?
... that Checheyigen's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire?
... that the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies houses a John Steinbeck archive of more than 50,000 items?
... that "Buy Cash" is the speaker of the House of Assembly of Eswatini?

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