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TIL that Google’s ‘Most Badass Engineer’ Jeff Dean has a list of facts made up by employees smiliar to that of the 'Chuck Norris Facts’ due to his legendary status in the company

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78ZaP TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
NXdQP TIL the Kimberly Process, by which diamonds are certified as "conflict-free", has been largely abandoned as ineffective. Due to corruption and smuggling it is essentially impossible to tell if a gem is a blood diamond or not.
6njJ TIL - Ireland was one of the earliest countries to adopt a system of hereditary surnames (11th century)
oRrK TIL there was 5 different species of human living on the planet as recently as 30000 years ago
XExYk TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.