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Women Are Objects

Women! They're things. Or stuff. Wait, no, they're people... but not until the '90s. Before then, your girlfriend was a mop, or a beer, or a pack of cigarettes.

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The More You Know

  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • Shakespeare's plays feature the word "love" about 10 times more than the word "hate."
  • Penguins spend approximately 75% of their life in the water.
  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
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