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TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to sell computers to the general public.

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YNk7 TIL in 2010, a Kansas State University professor went on a Twinkie diet, where he ate mainly Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to prove to his students that calorie counting is the important part of losing weight, not nutritional content. He lost 27 pounds in 2 months.
QJgaM TIL the Brown Recluse Spider is immune to Insecticides. Instead it causes them to become drunk and actually increases their likelihood of biting someone in their stupor.
9YOYD TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic got a telegram from Prince's management company saying that he was not to establish eye contact, during a show.
8vY4 TIL a lawyer was trying to prove, in a murder trial, that someone shot themselves, accidentally. While the lawyer was reenacting it he accidentally shot himself and died. He proved his point and the defendant was acquitted.
4XNQN TIL flotsam, jetsam, lagan & derelict all have very specific legal meanings under the law of the admiralty and marine salvage