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TIL Ada Lovelace, early pioneer of computing and talented mathematician was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron.

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4XLGw TIL at Auschwitz Joseph Mengele once shot a woman and her child for scratching an SS member’s face and ordered the entire transport of Jews to be gassed, saying “Away with this shit.”
N7xr8 TIL that humans and bananas share about 50% of the same DNA.
XnVP TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
69RJ8 TIL couscous is a pasta, not a grain
PYp6n Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196