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TIL that the first woman in the USA to ever get a PhD in Computer Science was a nun.

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xVEww TIL that 18 century mathematician Carl Gauss knew he was ahead of his time, and would purposefully withhold huge mathematical discoveries so he didn’t have to waste his time arguing with everyone who wasn’t smart enough to understand it.
XErbD TIL that the entire internet is kept locked up with 7 physical keys that open safety deposit boxes spread across the world to prevent people hacking the control mechanisms for web address assignment
e0KWE TIL: Research shows that people who buy electric cars prefer for their cars to look strange, indicating a big factor in picking out an electric car is the desire that everyone notices your car is an electric car.
jklM TIL Janice Joplin was voted “Ugliest Man on Campus” by fraternity brothers at UT Austin while she was a student there.
PYvlL TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.