One of Walt Disney's first art jobs was drawing cartoons for a local barber in exchange for haircuts.

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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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