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TIL Adm. Grace Hopper basically invented high level programming using concepts that still apply today.

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R7D06 TIL: To combat the theft of trees around Christmas time, University of Nebraska-Lincoln used to spray their trees with fox urine. It freezes and has no odor outside, but thaws if taken indoors. The resultant smell is so rancid it is “eye-watering”.
OlX6 TIL the winner of the 2001 Fox reality show “Murder in Small Town X” was a firefighter from NYC. He was killed a week after the season finale on 9/11 after winning $250,000.00 and a new jeep.
owJE TIL a public treasurer lost $1.2m of a Michigan county’s money to a Nigerian email scam
Jgp8 TIL that in season 1 episode 6 of the Dr Who series, it is mentioned that a meteor would crash in Russia in 2013. The episode was aired in 2005.
wWoY TIL in 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but later found still alive. She then was allowed to go free because under Scots Law her punishment had been carried out. Only later were the words “until dead” added to the sentence of hanging