26Obesity
82% of black women in the US are overweight with 56.6% being obese.
27. In preparing for "Tootsie," Dustin Hoffman had an epiphany when he realized that although he found his female character interesting, he would not have spoken to her at a party because she was not beautiful and that as a result, he had missed out on many conversations with interesting women.
28. There is an autoimmune disease which mimics the symptoms of demonic possession, and it has only been identified in the last 10 years. It affects mostly young women and can come on with no pre-warnings whatsoever.
29. Men are more likely to say 'I Love You' first than women are.
30. Susan B. Anthony once said that the invention of the modern bicycle "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" and called it the "freedom machine"
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31Mother Heroine Medal
Only one Soviet male was awarded the "Mother Heroine Medal" (reserved for women who bore at least 10 children) because he adopted 12 children.
32. Geena Davis tried out for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in archery. She placed 24th out of 300 women but did not qualify for the Olympics
33. Mary (mother of Jesus) is considered one of the most righteous women in the Islamic religion. She is mentioned more in the Quran than in the entire New Testament.
34. Women with high levels of toxoplasmosis antibodies were significantly more likely to have baby boys than baby girls. In most populations, the birth rate is around 51% boys, but women infected by this cat parasite had up to a 72% chance of a boy.
35. The only Chinese person working on the Manhattan Project was "First Lady of Physics" nuclear physicist Wu Jianxiong, whose experiments disproved the law of conservation of parity. She was the first living scientist to have an asteroid named after her. Also, her husband was Yuan Shikai's grandson.
36Karen Klein
After a video that went viral in 2012 showing a bus monitor getting bullied by students a Canadian man set up a fundraiser to collect $5,000 for a vacation for her. In the end, they ended up collecting and giving the women over $700,000. She has since retired.
37. Princess sickness is a term used in China and Korea to describe a psychological phenomenon affecting young women characterized by narcissism, egocentrism and melodramatic personality resulting in individuals acting like princesses.
38. Married women drink more than their unmarried counterparts, whereas the opposite is true for men, according to a 2012 study.
39. Claudius was the only one of the first 15 Roman emperors not to take a male lover. Others considered him strange for only being attracted to women.
40. The ratification of the 19th amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, came down to the vote of one 24-year-old Tennessee representative who, at the last minute, decided to vote in favor of the amendment due to a note his mother had written asking him to change his vote.
41Zach Galifianakis
Zach Galifianakis pays the rent for an apartment for homeless women named Elizabeth Mimi Haist who he knew growing up. He's also taken her to two Hangover premiere as his date.
42. Gloria Steinem talked Leonardo DiCaprio out of playing Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, saying, "Please, please don’t do this to those girls. The eyes of all 13-year-old girls are upon you and you can’t play a guy that tortures and kills women." (Then she married Christian Bale's dad).
43. Richard Dawson (original host of Family Feud) was asked by producers to quit kissing women. He asked the audience to mail in what they wanted, 704 were against the kissing, and 14,600 wanted him to continue.
44. MIT admitted its first female student in the 1870s as an experiment and allowed her to attend free of charge. Faculty members were against it but were forced to comply because they forgot to add a "no women" clause to the bylaws.
45. A man convicted of violating a century-old Michigan law against swearing near women and children challenged it in court and eventually won with the courts striking down the law.
46Hsing Hsing
Male orangutans can be attracted to women with red hair. One male, Hsing-Hsing, has even ripped pictures of Nicole Kidman out of magazines and placed them in his enclosure.
47. Michael Bay offered a $50,000 bounty to anyone that could give information leading to the arrest of a woman who videotaped herself throwing puppies into a river.
48. 35% of Saudi women in prison are there because no male relative will collect them.
49. Chinese silent movie actress Ruan Lingyu committed suicide at age 24 partly due to the stress caused by the Shanghai gossip tabloids exposing her private life. Her funeral procession was 3 miles long and three women committed suicide during the event.
50. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress, voted in favor of the original House resolution that ultimately gave women the right to vote. She later noted that she was "the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote."
