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TIL Ada Lovelace who wrote the first algorithm for a computing machine and first saw the potential in computers was a daughter of Lord Byron

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QZRa TIL Cunningham’s Law which states, “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer.”
VwVm TIL that Vladimir Arutyunian threw a grenade 65 feet from President Bush in 2005 at a speech in Georgia. The grenade malfunctioned and did not detonate.
69gYm TIL in an actual case of dying of laughter, 56-year-old Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen laughed himself to death watching A Fish Called Wanda
xEo7 TIL 1,311 people live in Verkhoyansk, Russia. A town with an avg. temp of -45 °C (-50 °F) in January that was also attacked by a pack of 400 wolves last year. The sun currently rises at 2pm and sets at 3:30pm.
vPaj4 TIL the Apollo 10 Mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan descended to about 8 miles above the moon. The lunar module they flew was capable of landing, but their mission was to photograph the landing site for Armstrong and Aldrin two months later.