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TIL The highest-earning female CEO in the US was born a man

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dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”
oBO7K TIL about the World's Littlest Skycraper, a building for which investors were given a blueprint measured in inches rather than feet. The promoter then ran off with the money after a building 12 times too small was constructed.
4bp6 TIL that four-year-old children on welfare in the United States have been exposed to an average of 30 million fewer words than children of higher income families.
OGxJY TIL that the creator of Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado, developed the entire game on his own. He took on the roles of designer, programmer, artist, and sound engineer, and even built the game’s microcomputer from the ground up.
kJQbW TIL that sleep deprivation sometimes helps with depression. However, the health risks from undersleeping outweigh the positive effect.