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TIL Ada Lovelace is called the world's first computer programmer; She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.

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Rvna TIL no one knows what Jesus looked like; “The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it’s all been forgotten.”
DOLj TIL that The Lego Movie was the first ever feature film with Wonder Woman in it
loORV TIL: The voice of Toy Story's Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks in the films) in video games and commercials belongs to Hanks' younger brother Jim. Apart from this, Jim is in a few running scenes as Tom's character in Forrest Gump, and he was also Tom's stunt double in 2011's Larry Crowne.
Wk60Y TIL An Indian King in 1920 bought 7 Rolls-Royce cars to collect garbage after being denied a test drive in England.
7ylM TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity