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TIL that the first computer programmers were women

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NXnee TIL about Ladera, an unincorporated Silicon Valley community that until 2021, "[forbid] residency by people 'other than those of the Caucasian or white race.'"
5VWOQ TIL that the first-ever recorded use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
NX4kJ TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.
X0XWR TIL after bandit George Parrott was lynched in Wyoming in 1881, some of his skin was tanned and turned into shoes. The third governor of Wyoming wore the shoes at his inaugural ball.
b6nEN Today I learned the term "software engineering" was coined by a woman..... Margaret Hamilton