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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

  • North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.
  • Your brain is sometimes more active when you're asleep than when you're awake.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • Peanuts can be used to make dynamite.
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