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TIL Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered by many to be the first computer programmer and her method describing an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers has been called the world's first computer program

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rN4eo TIL about the Passage du Gois, a road in France that's flooded out twice a day by the high tide.
W1QN TIL after winning the 1994 World Cup, Brazil’s goalie left his medal and $60,000 in cash in a cab. The cab driver returned all of it and received $1000 in reward
MeB1a TIL that Nigerian scam made Emmanuel Nwude $242 million richer. He sold a non-existent airport to Nelson Sakaguchi, a director of bank. Nwude has become Nigeria's fraud kingpin after pulling off one of the biggest 'deals' in history.
v8A4 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
VgxG TIL By typing “=lorem()” in Microsoft Word and pressing enter, you can generate several pages of nonsense