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TIL that there's a programming language called APL. It stands for 'a programming language.'

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kON5g TIL Elizebeth Smith Friedman, America’s first female cryptanalyst, worked as a code breaker who successfully broke up a Nazi spy ring across South America during the 1940s. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover took credit for her work until reports were declassified in 2008.
5prB TIL of Larry Abshier, a US soldier in the Korean War who defected to North Korea because he was caught smoking pot. He lived with four other American defectors and was cast in several North Korean films where he became a celebrity.
KY9nR TIL: Harambe the Gorilla is named after the 1988 song "Harambe (Working Together for Freedom)" by Rita Marley, widow of Bob Marley.
j6gjp TIL Nelly and Tennessee Williams went to the same high school.
ADxXo TIL of the Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave dating to 5000BC, containing the remains of 34 bodies, bearing some of the earliest evidence of habitual warfare, including fatal adze, axe and arrow wounds to the back of the head. It has been suggested that this site represents an early form of genocide.