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TIL about Grace Hopper who was the inventor of the first compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.

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Lwm0 TIL that Rupert Grint’s first movie outside of Harry Potter was a film called “Thunderpants”. The movie featured a young boy whose explosive and dangerous farts land him a job as an astronaut.
N70QJ TIL rock star success was once highly regional. In June 1976 Bob Seger played to 78,000 fans in Detroit, only to play to less than 1,000 in Chicago the very next day
99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
QkxE TIL an old Persian curse: Guz bi rishit, “May a fart be on your beard.”
l76Aa TIL that the HBO Feature Presentation intro song has an official full length version with lyrics