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TIL about Dr Alan Hart whose pioneering work on tuberculosis saved countless lives

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4XwKg TIL about Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician born in 1815, regarded as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first to write a set of instructions - "notes" - intended to be carried out by a machine. She was a friend with Charles Babbage and other important scientists of the time.
a8JZN TIL that Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Catholic Priest group, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
nWaxd TIL that cryovolcanoes exist!
oRZA8 TIL that in 1910-1911, Olive Susan Miranda Temple, a Scottish writer and traveller, journeyed 3,700 miles through parts of Africa little known to Europeans to visit her fiancé's grave, and later published a book based on her observations.
NRlM TIL a “Sploot” is the word for how some pets lay stretched on their belly with their legs behind them