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TIL there is a programming language called ArnoldC based entirely around Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

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M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.
Eg1mw TIL, until 1929, the legal age of marriage in England and Wales was 14 for males and 12 for females. With The Age of Marriage Act released in 1929, it increased to 16 with the consent of the parents or the guardian, and to 21 without that consent.
0wj5p TIL that the US destroyed Britain's very first orbital satellite with a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb and kept it secret for 50 years.
oBPbo TIL That Japanese people have a literacy rate of almost 100%.
dPld TIL in 2006 actor David Cross became Kickstarter’s first investor.