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TIL Ada Lovelace died from uterine cancer at the age of 36

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dD0j9 TIL 100 million Americans have medical debts. Their bills make up about half of all outstanding debt in the country
P1xng TIL in the film Titanic, it is not Celine Dion singing the first time audiences hear the theme for "My Heart Will Go On," it is instead a lyric-less version sung by Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø
0w06y TIL that after its independence and the freeing of its enormous slave population, France forced Haiti to compensate slave owners for the theft of property (the slaves), a debt lasting over 100 years which was paid off finally on 1947.
mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
9wL8p TIL that the first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets