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Jul 05, 2020

TIL that before women became the mainstay telephone operators were teenage boys. The change came about when the lads being pesky teenagers pulled too many pranks, got drunk on the job and swore down the phone

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Jun 12, 2020

TIL Jeannette Rankin was a Montana politician who made history in 1916 as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. She was also the only member of Congress to cast a vote against participation in both world wars. She was unafraid to take controversial positions on several issues.

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Apr 20, 2020

TIL Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for president in 1972 & ran under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed"

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Jan 28, 2020

TIL of Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a midwife in Auschwitz who helped deliver 3,000 babies in squalor and never let a single mother or baby die during delivery. Over half of the babies were murdered soon after, but she worked tirelessly to save the lives of as many mothers and babies as she could

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Jan 06, 2020

TIL 30,000 People disappeared during Argentina’s dirty war. Every Thursday Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo fills with women wearing white scarves and holding signs covered with names of those who were kidnapped by the government.

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Aug 01, 2019

TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.

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Jun 28, 2019

TIL About Dr Gisella Perl, an inmate and female doctor at Auschwitz. She was instructed to tell Joseph Mengele of any pregnant women, so that he could experiment on them. Instead, she tried to save as many lives as possible by terminating pregnancies, and doing late stage births, without any drugs.

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