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

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LoQ0 TIL that men are more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime comitted by strangers
xLNk TIL The toilets at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport pass the white-glove test. A realistic looking housefly is painted inside the men urinals so that men will aim at the fly and try to wash it down the drain. Fly-in-urinal research found that the etching reduced spillage by 80 percent.
xV8eo TIL that when the Baltimore Colts tried to move to Indianapolis, the owner feared that the government would attempt to keep the team in the city by eminent domain. He secretly packed up everything in trucks in the middle of the night and was in Indiana before the government realized they were gone.
XElKQ TIL that ceviche fish (fish marinated in acidic juices) creates the same reaction as cooking the fish. By 'denaturing' the fish proteins (basically changing their structure) to firm up the flesh as if cooked. Then flavour to taste!
kJaN7 TIL that nearly 16,000 COVID cases went unreported in England because Public Health England used a legacy .xls Excel spreadsheet file that can only handle up to 65536 rows to record cases instead of a proper database.