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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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awrx0 TIL that in the early 1900's, avocados were known as "alligator pears." In attempt to make the fruit (yes, they are fruits) more marketable to the American consumer, they were re-named avocado which derives from the Aztec word for testicle.
XEGL8 TIL The Guinness official recently awarded Guinness World Records Certificate to YouTube ’s oldest game YouTuber. The old lady from Japan is named Hamako Mori. The grandmother has been playing games for 39 years.
Z1WR TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
XE6r TIL an edition of “Where’s Waldo?” is banned in many places because of it showing a woman’s exposed breast in the scene “On the Beach”.
pYo5b TIL that the placebo effect can have measureable physical effects on the body such as immune response and inflammation