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TIL the person who coined the phrase “the future is female”(sally miller gearhart believed that “The proportion of men must be reduced and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race”

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Q959 TIL a man bought a house for $10k, and found an Action Comics #1 with the first appearance of Superman stuffed inside a wall. Showing it to an in-law, she tried to take it, tearing the cover.
P1pwJ TIL one of the earliest medical descriptions of a phobia was by Hippocrates (460 - 370BC) who recounted a man named Nicanor who apparently suffered from a fear of flute music.
woJAJ TIL that Liberia was founded by U.S. citizens as a colony for freed African American slaves and their free black descendants.
loXN5 TIL of Olivia Farnsworth. Olivia is 7 years old, doesn’t feel pain, and never feels tired or hungry. This is because a rare chromosome condition. One day she was hit by car and dragged down the street about 100 feet. Olivia walked away with only minor injuries.
ZplKa TIL: The Japanese battleship Mikasa is the last pre dreadnought battleship. Built in the 1890s, it fought numerous battles. During the Battle of Tsushima, it fired 124 shells and was hit 40 times. After WW2, the Americans turned it into Club Mikasa, a nightclub for American servicemen.