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TIL that punchcards were used to ‘program’ looms to weave elaborate textiles in 1725.

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PYoRE TIL cats commonly have white bellies and paws because when pigment develops in the womb, it starts along what will become the spine and works its way around to the front. Sometimes pigmentation doesn’t make it all the way around, resulting in color on top and white on the bottom.
yQJyM TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.
kEj4 TIL Atari didn’t allow designers to receive credit on their games, and so Warren Robinett placed a secret object in the game which allowed the players to see a hidden screen displaying “Created by Warren Robinett”, one of the earliest Easter eggs to be created
GGBE TIL that the song Baby It’s Cold Outside was written and sung by a married couple to sing at the end of parties to get guests to leave
4Xb0b TIL that in 1942 German prisoners in the island of Nias established a short lived Nazi state.