Long before rap battles, there was "flyting" the exchange of witty, insulting verses. The verbal throwdowns were popular in England and Scotland from the 5th to 16th centuries.

It's a poetic competition of the Scottish makaris (poets) of the 15th and 16th centuries, in which two highly skilled rivals engaged in a contest of verbal abuse.

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Britney Spears was only 16 when she recorded “Baby one More Time”.

The song became one of the defining pop songs of the late 90s and helped launch the teen pop explosion of the early 2000s

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Society has often tried to place women into two groups. Beauty or brains. The media often portrays women in STEM as "unfeminine". It's a bit funny.

The woman considered to be the most beautiful in movies was also one of the contributors for the invention of wireless technologies we use today.

Hedy Lamar did self taught engineering studies after leaving her first marriage. Her work on spread spectrum technology later became the foundation for modern wifi, bleutooth and GPS technologies.

She was a major MGM star in the 1930s,frequently typecast as the exotic and mysterious seductress.

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YouTube was originally supposed to be a dating site.

It was called"Tune In Hook Up", where people would upload videos of themselves to find a match. When nobody signed up,the founders gave up and let people upload whatever they want.

The first video ever ended up being a guy at the zoo talking about elephant trunks.

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The entire Grand Theft Auto franchise exists because of a bug in a 1996 racing game called Race'n'Chase. The police Al was supposed to just pull you over, but a glitch made them hyper aggresive, trying to ram the player off the road. Playtesters loved the " angry cops" so much that the developers scrapped the racing game and built GTA around the chaos. @ReddScope🖕

There are plenty of people who have started cults and religious  movements that could be mentioned, but L Ron Hubbard stands  out as an icon for his creative use of Mind Control.

Hubbard is best known as a science fiction writer and founder  of Scientology. He is quoted as prophetically saying "If you want to  make a lot of money start your own religion." and he did just that. 
Hubbard invented a process he called Dianetics which he  proposed was able to clear people of all their worldly and spritual problems and had the potential to give them super powers of  perception and influence.
Through his Church, Scientology, members would go through  lengthy and expensive trainings called 'auditing' to remove 'engrams'  from their nervous system that they claimed to be the origin of all  human problems.

Being a creative and prolific writer, Hubbard and his followers,  created a complex and compelling process that would lead its members  into a video game-like world view in which they would zap hindering  engrams and release 'Operating Thetans' from the psyche so that each  person could be free to fulfill their true potential.

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🍿 Infiltrating Scientology Ep 1: Sunday Church Service

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The original Nike 👕 logo was designed by a college student in 1971.

Carolyn was paid just $35. Years later when nike became huge, they brought her back and rewarded her a share of the company.

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