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TIL Ada Lovelace, along with her early work in programming and designing a turing computer in the 1830s, wrote a theory of "flyology" on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve it. She was 12 when she published it.

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nWZbP TIL that future SCOTUS Justice Stephen Field replaced David Terry on the California Supreme Court, due to Terry killing a U.S. Senator in a duel. 30 years later, Field ruled against Terry in a case, and Terry attempted to murder Field, which led to a Supreme Court case Field recused himself from.
WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.
Y7ZG7 TIL there is a global cycling race circuit for 2-year olds. They race 12”, pedalless “balance bikes”. A recent race had 250 participants ages 2-4.
7rKdX TIL that when the ancient Marquesan people, who became Hawaiians, first sailed to Hawaii, they brought pigs, dogs, and chickens to eat. These fat, slow dogs that mainly ate fermented Taro root were called Poi dogs and were eaten and sometimes sacrificed and placed in ritual graves with children.
w9d6 TIL modern day Lithuania was once known as Memelland