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TIL Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Was the Daughter of Romantic Poet Lord Byron and Mathematician Anne Isabella Noel Byron. Lord Byron was a renowned Romantic poet known for his passionate and extremely scandalous lifestyle, as well as masterpieces like Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty

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