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TIL (some?) butterflies in drink turtle tears for dietary sodium.

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W7EYX TIL Aristotle’s views on women are so expansive that they get their own wiki page, He basically asserted that women should be subservient to men to the point where they shouldn’t even be allowed to eat as much food. He also claimed that women were basically incomplete men, and thus inferior
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