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“vibrator was invented by a physician to treat women who suffered from “hysteria.”
– Georgian and Victorian Medical Fact
In the 1600s, hysteria had a different meaning than it does today. It was believed to be a condition unique to women and derives from the word “hysteric” which literally means, of the womb.
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Scarecrow's Brain
Towards the end of Wizard of Oz when the wizard convinces the scarecrow that brains are a very mediocre commodity but that there are universities from which students emerge as deep thinkers, and then confers upon him the Honorary degree of ThD (Doctor of Thinkology), the scarecrow gets quite excited and declares, “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal...
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There is nothing I am more confident about than my own humility.
