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TIL Tesla believed that women would become the dominant sex in the future.

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a6Zo TIL When the first Alien script was written, all parts were meant to be interchangeable for men or women.
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nw9r TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.