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TIL the highest paid woman CEO in America was born a man

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d8GWZ TIL: Jennifer Lawrence had her first acting assignment at age nine, when she played the role of a prostitute in a church play that was based on the Book of Jonah.
ADDGB TIL expandable water toys are made possible by superabsorbant materials first used in sanitary pads and adult diapers
W7dWB TIL: Chedipe is a vulgar, undressed, Indian witch vampire who rides on a tiger at night, casts a spell to enter your home, and then sucks men's blood through their toes. Sometimes, if the man is married, she sleeps with him in order to cause marital strife as she feeds off pain and sadness.
b986j TIL that sperm whales can vocalize at 230 decibels, which is about 100 decibels more than a jet engine (from 100 feet away). The sound is so loud that, if close enough, it can paralyze or even kill a human by vibrating their body to death.
gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient