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TIL the first woman elected to the british westminster parliament was the Irish Republican leader Countess Markievicz

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VGaB TIL A woman named Augusta Ada King is regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes in the 1800’s on using computers to compute algorithms.
ADdvd TIL: In 1943 a flying jeep prototype was designed with a 40 foot rotor on the roof along with a tail fairing and fins, but no rudder. In Sept 1944 it was successfully flown for 10 minutes at an alt. of 400 feet, after being pulled up and released by a Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber.
w1bM TIL John Malkovich named his film company after a Thai man (storied to be a convicted murderer) who was his driver during the filming of The Killing Fields. “Mr. Mudd” would run of bicyclists and old women off the road, and say: ‘Sometime Mr. Mudd kill. Sometime Mr. Mudd not kill.’
4DXb TIL The ADHD drugs Ritalin and Adderall bind to the same receptors in the brain as cocaine and methamphetamine, respectively. Ritalin has the same effect on the brain as cocaine and Adderall has the same effect as meth, and the only difference is their potency.
XVvk TIL there are 9.63 million millionaires in the U.S. alone.