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PYbrn TIL that many European maps during the Middle Ages had the East on top instead of the North, thus "to orient" meant to align the map to the East, the Orient.
ZknR TIL that Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
4ejX TIL Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox
awV99 TIL: The eastern United States was once the home of over 3 billion chestnut trees. In the early 1900's, the trees were devastated by a chestnut blight which virtually eliminated all of the them. Today, there are still efforts to revitalize these beautiful trees!
awOnb TIL Russia almost descended into civil war in 1993 after the parliament building was shelled by tanks under orders of President Boris Yeltsin