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

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4owR TIL The FBI can wiretap almost anything with the click of a button using DCSNet.
wL7aY TIL wath the Siberian Corridor was. It was a strip of steppe from Mongolia to the east of Europe, used by nomadic population in their movements from east to west. Huns, Turks and Mongols all went through there. The corridor was closed by the Russian Empire expansion toward Siberia.
D1avP TIL in 1970 George Carlin, tiring of performing clean stand-up comedy, listed the many uses of the word "shit" one night at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. He was immediately fired and escorted from the premises.
o6K7 TIL in 2016, Amsterdam Police officers broke down a door to rescue a woman in lingerie standing listlessly at a window. Worried she may be hurt, they first tried to get her attention by ringing the doorbell and banging on the door. They then broke the door down to discover she was a blow-up sex doll
QJRge TIL Moscow did not cancel May Parade in Kiev just 4 days after Chernobyl meltdown. Empty reviewing stands prove that even the local party leaders knew the danger, but let the unsuspecting ordinary people absorb the radiation