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Fun Facts of The Day

Nov 05, 20243 min
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Fun Facts of The Day

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Speaker 1

It's the fuck back to the day. We make you look smart, your body, it's the fuck back to the day. Hell.

Speaker 2

Do you remember for a brief period of time, Oh hi, hell, oh hi, hell, that they came out with a Susan B. Anthony coin.

Speaker 1

Yes, I think I have some.

Speaker 2

And it was the first coin. It was the first American currency that featured a chick. So she must have done something pretty great, right to get on a coin. Does anybody know what she did? She go ahead, she closed the flag, right, Yeah, that was so so I'll save you.

Speaker 1

Here's the deal.

Speaker 2

Here's the deal. In eighteen seventy two, Susan B. Anthony was a was a huge activist. And I know this because my birthday is August twenty sixth. That happens to be Women's Suffrage Saffridge Day. Okay, so she was. So she was a huge, huge, Yeah, so Susan B. Anthony on this day. This is the thing that kind of put her over the edge. One hundred and fifty two years ago, in eighteen seventy two, Susan B. Anthony voted illegally in a presidential election. Good for her, women couldn't vote.

She was arrested, She went to trial. She was fined one hundred dollars, which is about two thousand dollars in today's money. By the way, her vote didn't count because women couldn't vote. Then she voted for Ulysses S. Grant, who won defiantly never paid the fine. Women weren't legally about loud to vote until nineteen twenty, when the nineteenth Amendment passed. Alex mentioned that nineteen twenty women got the right to vote. She voted in eighteen seventy two. Had

her time. The bee in Susan b. Anthony was for badass. Yeah, all right, that's such a girl. Boss christ the other b she was slaying. Did you know there are whales alive today that have been alive since before Moby Dick was written in eighteen fifty one? Whoa hell, you're a sharp guy. You didn't know that there are whales that are two hundred years old?

Speaker 1

They got stories? Did anyone knows? It's kind of terrifying.

Speaker 2

I think about Yeah, dinosaurs, they're bowhead whales off the coast of Alaska. Well, not thousands of years old, they're just two hundred years old. But yeah, bowhead whales off the coast of Alaska. They were around before Moby Dick.

Speaker 1

They saw Titanic.

Speaker 2

They will always be dinosaurs to me. Well, they watched the Titanic go down. That could have been crazy.

Speaker 1

Whoa fighting the hell one of them? Bit Jack? What hell?

Speaker 2

Yeah? Anderson Cooper has no formal journalism training at all. I mean he's like he hosts one of the biggest news programs of all time. He got his degree in political science from Yale, and then he did a summer a couple of summer internships at the CIA, and then the rest is just his family. Like his mom is Gloria Vanderbilt.

Speaker 1

So oh it's neat. Sure that didn't hurt. It's the fun that to the day we make you look smart in front of your body's It's the fun that to the day

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