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The U.S. government
saved every public
tweet from 2006 to- But starting
in 2018, the Library
of Congress decided
to keep tweets only on
certain subjects and
on “a very selective
basis,” such as those
about elections, dealing
with public policy, and
of overall national in-
terest. If you want to
check out the govern-
ment’s comprehensive
tweet collection, you
are out of luck. The
entire thing is embar-
goed “until access is-
sues can be resolved
in a cost-effective and
sustainable manner.”
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Sloths can hold their
breath longer than
dolphins can. Dolphins
need air after ten min-
utes, but a swimming
sloth can hold its breath
for up to 40 minutes.
Their secret: Sloths can
slow their heart rate at
will, reducing the need
for fresh oxygen.rd.com 618
A woman was
elected to Congress
before women’s
suffrage. Montana’s
Jeannette Rankin was
sworn in as the first
female member of
Congress in 1917;
all American women
were given the right
to vote in 1920.6
Chicago isn’t called the Windy
City because of its weather.
It was meant as an insult to the
city’s windbags. Journalists
used to criticize Chicago’s elites
for being “full of hot air,” as reported in
an 1858 Chicago Daily Tribune story that
read, “[A] hundred militia officers, from
corporal to commander ... air their vanity ...enterphoto (sloth). marchello74 (border), serzh (chicago). all shutterstockin this windy city.”
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