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TIL Scientists have created a liquid, bulletproof armor that hardens upon contact

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Zp4VD TIL that during his autopsy, Thomas Hardy's heart was left unattended in a biscuit tin and was subsequently found and eaten by his favourite cat, Cobby.
Z8ypa TIL that 70s prog rockers Ambrosia took the lyrics from a 1976 track, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. When Vonnegut heard the song on the radio, he wrote the band a letter that said, "Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys."
vPAD TIL the no politics rule has become stricter for the election season.
Gwjj TIL The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, who in 1842 wrote and published an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli Numbers on Charles Babbage’s analytical machine.
wLaa6 TIL of the TV Listing for the Wizard of Oz: "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."