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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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9Yr77 TIL Pixar's Cars (2006) was simultaneously Pixar's final movie to be released on VHS and their first movie to be released on Blu-ray.
1a6l8 TIL: Ampulex wasps paralyze cockroaches before clipping their antennae and drinking their blood directly from their heads. Afterward, they drag the roach to a burrow where wasp larva feed on the subdued living cockroach.
69eD7 TIL sometimes a baby can taste what their mom had for lunch
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8PPV TIL during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hospital Corpsman John Willis was treating a fallen Marine in a mortar crater when a grenade landed at his feet. He returned the grenade, followed by 7 others thrown by the enemy in rapid succession, all while administering blood plasma. The 9th grenade killed him.