Another thing your teachers never told you –

It was always there, you just never noticed it –

Mary Katherine Goddard, who was working as printer at the time, voluntarily inscribed her full name on the document, making her the only woman who ‘signed‘ the Declaration of Independence. Congress fled Philadelphia and settled temporarily in Baltimore. When they needed somebody to print the Declaration, Goddard was the person to help.

Those who signed it knew they were taking a risk that amounted to treason against the British empire if their side lost. At the bottom of the document is written “Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katherine Goddard.”