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TIL the term 'computer' used to mean humans who performed tedious, repetitive calculations by hand. Many of whom were women and some became the early programmers in a time when men refused to code because it was seen as "woman's work"

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8eEaa TIL that in 2017, the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired its backup thrusters for the first time in 37 years
W7xoB TIL about the Lloyds Bank Coprolite, the longest recorded piece of fecal matter, found in the british city of York in 1972
ao1Z TIL during the Nazi regime, not a single person who purchased a Volkswagen Beetle actually received it.
e0PJ5 TIL that a man named Oswald can be heard only at Embankment station saying "mind the gap". In 2012 they were planning on changing all voiceovers but decided not to at this station when Oswalds wife told them that he had passed away in 2007. She loved listening to him when on the way to work.
Xy1k TIL an entirely unfounded rumor about “flesh eating bananas” panicked the public to such an extent that the Center for Disease Control had to set up a “banana hotline” as it was inundated with calls from the gullible public worried about killer bananas!