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TIL that the first computer programmers were women
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TIL about Ladera, an unincorporated Silicon Valley community that until 2021, "[forbid] residency by people 'other than those of the Caucasian or white race.'"
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TIL that the first-ever recorded use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
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TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.
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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.
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Today I learned the term "software engineering" was coined by a woman..... Margaret Hamilton