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TIL The Amazing Jonathan, late comedian and magician, was married to, and managed by, Anastasia Synn, a transhumanist, biohacker, and cyborg rights activist. She holds the Guinness World Record for most technological implants in the female body and has the largest magnet ever implanted in a person.

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yQAkw TIL that Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and is the only woman to win DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement
lojbB TIL Tiny Science! is the world's smallest science lab kit, complete with precision lab instruments
x6LRb TIL Billie Eilish's real name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell
jGvN TIL that the Dothraki language was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.
Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.