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TIL that butterflies can remember things they learn as caterpillars.

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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.
RQyw TIL Richard Nixon admitted in later life that he dreamed of becoming a rapper, saying “I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.”
jZLN TIL raccoon semen is a natural hallucinogen (containing DMT and mescaline)
4X7p5 TIL that according to cognitive dissonance theory, the "Ben Franklin effect" means that whether you choose to treat someone well or not, you will devise a reason for why they deserved it, either way.
1a9Rr TIL in 1987, an engineer used a new computer program “rwall” to send a message to his university server. Instead, the program broadcasted the message to every user on the internet—including the Pentagon.