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Women Can't Do Anything: The Musical

One would assume that if this woman was a Telex operator, she would know what a Telex is. Of course, according to every advertisers in the twentieth century, women didn't know how to read, drive, or identify basic objects.

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The More You Know

  • About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • Reed Hasting started Netflix after receiving $40 in late fees when returning Apollo 13.
  • Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
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