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TIL The first woman ever to get a PhD in Computer Science was a nun

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XER96 TIL one of the primary economic principles of Nazi Germany was the mass privatization of public industries.
MeQ7B TIL that Clement Vallandigham, a defense lawyer in a murder trial accidentally shot himself and died while reenacting the possibility of a victim accidentally shooting and killing themselves instead of his client. The defendant was then set free.
M77xB TIL evidence of the world’s oldest forest, dating back 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study published in Current Biology.
rRjAw TIL in a small town of Poland Winnie the Pooh was banned from being a playground mascot after the local councillors declared him a 'hermaphrodite' of 'dubious sexuality' due to the bear's lack of clothes
rLK0 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg, named the number 1 philanthropist by Philanthropy magazine, donated $992.2 million to Planned Parenthood in 2013, equal to roughly 18 million shares of Facebook.