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TIL Peseshet, who lived under The Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, is the earliest known female physician in history

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DLLJ TIL: The 23¢ gender pay gap is the difference between average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It doesn’t account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked. When such relevant factors are considered, the gap narrows to the point of vanishing.
pYPKp TIL, at age 39, that staplers have different settings to fold the staples either inwards or outwards
gQBA TIL Steven Sasson invented the digital camera in 1975 but his bosses at Kodak never let it see the light of day
x60Dw TIL about Sabina Chebichi the first Kenyan woman athlete that won a medal at the commonwealth games of 1974 while running barefoot and wearing a dress
XE7YE TIL while the term "shrapnel" has been generalized to refer to any fragments of bullets, shell casings, and bombs, the term originally referred to a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air, invented by Henry Shrapnel in the 18th century