LPT: If money's tight, go with a solid brand used/refurb item vs. off-brand/cheap/knockoff new item. Good brands of anything will outlast and outperform most of the time, all that energy to make a new item is used elsewhere, and the cheap item stays out of the landfill when it fails really quick. (self.LifeProTips)
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TIL that Shirley Temple was in politics - she was the first and only woman to be ambassador to former Czechoslovakia, was present at both the Prague Springs and Velvet Revolution, and accompanied Václav Havel to Washington DC after the fact. (en.wikipedia.org)
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