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TIL Raptors have been shown to start wildfires to drive their prey out into the open.

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nWdQY TIL: that despite the controversy over Ada Lovelace being the "first programmer," she was the first to realize that the Analytical Engine—the earliest concept of a computer—could act on things beyond numbers, like music or symbols, marking her as a visionary who saw the full potential of computers.
l7Z1 TIL Goldman Sachs owned 16% of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States for more than six years and sat on the company’s board for 4.
gAOb TIL that modern fears about masturbation’s effects date back not to the Bible, but to a 18th century tract published in London by a quack surgeon and occasional soft-core pornographer
5van TIL Sir Isaac Newton was a member of parliament in the UK, but his only contribution to the debates was to request the window to be closed because of a cold draught
Mebaa TIL of cherubism, a genetic disease that causes large cysts to form inside face bones, making the bones sponge-like and disfigured.