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TIL the highest paid woman CEO in the US was born a male.

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Vlnk TIL that a there has been a book written from the perspective of a successful sociopath/psychopath about the intricacies of the life of someone with this condition called “Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight”. The book, for obvious reasons, was written under a pseudonym.
Xx9R TIL that a US submarine placed a wire tap on Russian undersea cables to monitor secret military communications during the Cold War, and only found the cable after a week of searching because of a sign on the shore saying “Cable Here. Do Not Anchor.”
aVby TIL: according to former LAPD veteran detective Greg Kading, P. Diddy is responsible for 2Pac Shakur’s death.
A5lx TIL a Starship Troopers anime was made in 1988
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