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dE47 TIL: A woman with no vagina had oral sex, got stabbed, and got pregnant when the stab allowed the sperm to fertalize her egg.
epy7n TIL the first African American woman to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel in 1939, wasn't even able to attend the premiere of the movie she preformed in due to it being held at a whites-only theater.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.
VMnBk TIL hippos can sleep underwater by using a reflex that allows them to surface, take a breath, and sink back down without waking up.
DpMD TIL That the song Capt. Jean Luc Picard listened to when he thought the ship (and the entire United Federation of Planets) was lost to the Borg in the movie “First Contact” was about a sailor in the Trojan War who was worried he’d never see home again.