› added 1 month ago

10

TIL that the first women in America to earn a PhD in computer science was a Catholic nun, Sister Mary Keller

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yQY5M TIL that in 2014, James D. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, sold his Nobel Prize Medal for $4.1M USD. In doing so, he became the first living Nobelist to sell his medal.
oBV4Y TIL that 90% of all data ever created by human existence was generated in the last 2 years.
wLld7 TIL About Lisa Nowak, a NASA Astronaut who in 2007 was arrested for the attempted kidnapping, assault and battery of US Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the girlfriend of Astronaut William Oefelein, with whom Novak had been romantically involved.
ooZA TIL the mathematician George Dantzig solved two of the most famous problems of statistics, because he came into class too late to hear that they were supposed to be unsolvable
MeR8m TIL In the beginning of his career, Eddie Van Halen would play shows with his back to the audience, to keep anyone from stealing his technique