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TIL that the first computer programmer is considered to be Ada Lovelace, a female mathematician who was the daughter of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

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VMlXk TIL of the Titanoboa, an extinct species of snake that was 42 feet Long and 2500 lbs. This was by far the largest snake in the world and fossils weren't discovered until 2009.
Ooj87 TIL Martian sunsets would appear bluish to human observers watching from the red planet
loGlr TIL in WW2, the British made their plane's external fuel tanks out of paper-mache, to save metal
Wkl7o TIL the saxophone is considered a woodwind instrument and not a brass instrument even though it is made of brass. Musical instruments are not actually classified based on what they are made of, but how sounds are produced using them.
BrDxd TIL: The New Zealand Parliament unanimously passed a motion to censure Ben Affleck, out of anger that a line in his film 'Argo' falsely claimed that the British and New Zealand embassies had turned away the six escaped American diplomats in Tehran during the hostage crisis.