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TIL That the first Computer Programmer was a woman

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wPP8 TIL that in 2009, Amtrak police arrested a guy for taking pictures of trains as they pulled into NYC’s Penn Station – he was trespassing and suspicious, they claimed. Why was he there? To take photos for his entry into Amtrak’s “Picture Our Train” contest.
Mym0 til Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, is worth $790 million
j69Ra TIL a Giant Panda research center in China has been working on a panda linguistics project since 2010. They were able decipher 13 different panda phrases. 'If we can understand their language, it will help us protect the animal, especially in the wild,” Zhang said.
Lk7ZZ TIL of Richard Carmona who dropped out of high school at 16, joined US Special Forces during the Vietnam War, went on to Medical School after that, later becoming a physician. He would also serve as a SWAT commander for a county sheriff's dept. In 2002, he became the 17th Surgeon General of the US.
WkvZ4 TIL that "indoor cats" are overwhelmingly more common in the US [and Australia] than Europe, as they are an invasive species there