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TIL the first digital computer, ENIAC, was programmed by six women in the 1940s. Fran Bilas, Betty Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff's contributions were overlooked for decades. Their pioneering work laid the foundation for modern computing.

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01LL TIL: that the zipper company YKK produces everything in-house, including its zipper-manufacturing machines and shipping boxes.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.
b9QQp TIL The novel "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize in 1992, and then won the Golden Booker Award (a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize) 26 years later, in 2018.
QJrRE TIL that The British Isles, Great Britain and The United Kingdom are not just alternative names, they are totally different. Even more astounding The British Isles is a collection of over 6,000 islands