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TIL "brunet" is the masculine version of "brunette"

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WkXw8 TIL of Tore Hedin, a Swedish murderer who robbed and killed a friend in 1951. To cover his tracks, he also burned down the crime scene. As he was a local police officer, he helped investigate the crime and even answered questions about it from the national media.
ADRbn TIL about Grace Hopper (1906-1992). She was rejected by the Navy during WWII due to her age, her weight-to-height ratio and utility as a mathematics professor. Instead she became a programmer of the Harvard Mark I computer, and later popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages.
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