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TIL that the first person in history we know the name of was an ordinary accountant named Kushim. He used his name to sign a clay tablet receipt for barley shipments, around 3100 BC. (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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The receipt says: "29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim". The most probable reading of this sentence is: "A total of 29,086 measures of barley were received over the course of 37 months. Signed, Kushim."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

US agencies are just as bad FYI. I know some agencies that have forms that go up to almost 9,000... (They used a numerical naming system for each form, starting with "1"). It doesn't mean that there are 8,000 active forms, just that since the agencies inception they have had to create that many different form templates. But there probably is ~500 forms being used at any given time if I took a shot in the dark.