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TIL Russians smile less compared to many other people in the world, due in large part to a popular Russian proverb: “A smile without reason is a sign of idiocy.” (See #9)

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1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
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