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Will I post the more fun and sexy stats from our #wrapped later? Probably! But this one made me so excited! This one means Y`ALL are...
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So there’s this terrible take floating around from some dude who’s never made a woman come and… yeah. Pure clickbait.
BUT it did remind me of Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood icon who helped invent the tech behind Wi-Fi. So here’s your quick history snack:
🛜 Born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, 1914. Married a super rich guy at 18… who turned out to be a Nazi sympathizer.
🛜 Uh oh! Hedy was not into it, so she escaped in disguise and fled Austria. Legend behavior.
🛜 She hit Hollywood in 1937, instantly became “the most beautiful woman in the world.” Meanwhile? She spent her nights inventing with an engineer’s drafting table in her home.
🛜 She teamed up with composer George Antheil to create a frequency-hopping system to stop Nazis from jamming Allied torpedoes.
🤠 Fuck yeah.
🛜 It wasn’t used in WWII, but that invention later became the backbone of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
So thank you to the random red-pill dude (and his extremely generous use of “best-selling author”) for reminding me of her today. 💅✨
#HedyLamarr #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
