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The first woman to serve on the US Senate was Rebecca Latimer, seen here being inaugurated into office. She was an advocate for woman’s suffrage but is rarely celebrated today due to her white supremacist views.
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The More You Know
- If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
- The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
- Male seahorses bear their young.
- The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.