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TIL in 2010 Mattel launched Computer Engineers Barbie. With the accompanying book we learned that CE Barbie needed the help of two men to code the game she was designing and they also needed to help her after she accidentally infected her and her sister Skipper’s computers with a virus.

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wX0M TIL there’s a unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82 that started sending out radio waves and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before
NWWb TIL Moles have worm “larders” where they keep up to 1000 worms. Their saliva paralyses the worms and they store their still-living prey for later consumption.
8aZ84 TIL that there are “black holes” in the ocean that have the same mathematical properties as “normal” black holes. They capture water instead of light and can grow as big as a city.
16BDV TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal
YpV8P TIL CIA had an instructions manual for U2 pilots describing what they could eat, so that didn't had the urge to poop while on mission, which often spanned around 9 hours. The plane had no means of disposing the fecal matter.