HistoryInspiringNew Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in national elections, in 1893.3632k17 years ago
EntertainmentInterestingAfghanistan's first-ever modeling competition in 2009 received over 3,000 applications. Only 10 were from women.3491k14 years ago
EntertainmentMind-BlowingThe first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!2381k17 years ago
HistoryMind-BlowingChing Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.2108k10 years ago
BodyInterestingMen produce about 50% more sweat than women, but women's sweat glands are more efficient at cooling the body.1311k17 years ago
EntertainmentFunnyThere's a book titled "Everything men know about women" that has over 100 blank pages.535k11 years ago
HistoryInterestingLast 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).311k17 years ago
TechnologyMind-Blowing48% of all video game players in the United States are women, and players aged 45 and older represent the fastest-growing gaming demographic.152k12 years ago
TrendingPeopleMind-BlowingSisa Abu Daooh, an Egyptian woman, disguised herself as a man for 43 years after her husband passed away so she could work and provide for her daughter. She worked as a shoe shiner, brick layer, and farmer. When she was finally revealed in 2015, the Egyptian government didn't punish her — they awarded her the "Ideal Mother" prize on national television.12 months ago
TrendingHistoryMind-BlowingA B-25 bomber slammed into the Empire State Building in heavy fog. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was burned on the 80th floor. Rescuers placed her in an elevator to get her down - but the crash had severed the cables. She plummeted 75 stories to the basement. She survived. She still holds the Guinness World Record 80 years later.11 month ago
TrendingPeopleWholesomeFive University of Georgia Kappa Alpha Theta sisters pulled over on a rural Georgia road on March 15, 2024, when they spotted Cori Craft's SUV sinking into Brier Creek - wading in, freeing her and both sons, then watching Clarke Jones drop to her knees and perform CPR on a four-year-old whose lips had turned blue. About a minute and a half later, he opened his mouth and started crying. The sheriff's office made all five honorary deputies.15961 month ago
TrendingPeopleWholesomeGrace Groner bought 3 shares of Abbott Laboratories stock for $180 in 1935. She was a secretary. She held those shares for 75 years, reinvesting every dividend, while living in a one-bedroom cottage and buying clothes from rummage sales. When she died at 100, those shares were worth $7 million. She left every cent to her old college.15 days ago
TechnologyInspiringThe world's first computer programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer in 1843. Her work included the revolutionary idea that machines could process more than just numbers, envisioning computer-generated music and art.4 months ago
UpdatedHistoryFunnyJulie d'Aubigny was a 17th-century French opera singer and one of the most feared swordfighters in Paris. When her girlfriend's parents sent the girl to a convent, Julie checked in as a novice, placed a dead nun's body in her lover's bed, set the building on fire, and escaped with her. She was sentenced to death. The king pardoned her.2 months ago
TrendingPlacesWholesomeThe village of Piplantri in Rajasthan, India plants 111 trees every time a girl is born. In a region where daughters were once seen as a burden, the birth of a girl now triggers a celebration. They also start a savings fund for each girl's education. Piplantri now has over 350,000 trees. Every tree is named after a girl.13 days ago
TrendingPeopleMind-BlowingSylvia Bloom worked as a legal secretary on Wall Street for 67 years. Every time her boss bought a stock, she quietly bought the same one. Nobody - not her husband, not the lawyers she worked for - knew. When she died at 96, her estate was worth $9 million. She left $8.2 million for college scholarships.1 month ago
TrendingPeopleMind-BlowingA secretary in Dallas kept making typing errors, so she started painting over them with white tempera paint. She offered the idea to IBM - they said no. She built Liquid Paper into a company doing $38 million a year. Gillette bought it for $47.5 million. Her son was in The Monkees.1 month ago
TrendingPeopleMind-BlowingMaria Gatchalian spent 30 years as a NICU nurse at Kaiser Permanente, repeatedly reporting unsafe staffing and patient safety failures. In 2019, Kaiser fired her - citing a photo of her with bare feet resting on an incubator during a break. A jury found the photo was a pretext. The real reason was the reports. They awarded her $41.49 million.3261 month ago
TrendingPeopleWholesomeA 73-year-old flower delivery woman in Lawrence, Massachusetts was pinned under a 4,000-pound car when it rolled onto her leg. About a dozen neighbors and police officers lifted nearly two tons off her as she screamed in Spanish, clutching a stranger's leg. She walked out of hospital on her own two feet.1 month ago