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TIL that programming used to be considered as menial, unskilled work for underpaid women, and the term "computer" referred to those women who made punch card code to compute long and tedious mathematical calculations (or just did it by hand).

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eRgb TIL Hyenas and Elephants can’t be raped, and women are the leaders in these societies because they control the sex (NSFW language)
kJ04B TIL in 1949, António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for the psychosurgery procedure leucotomy, ​better known today as the infamous lobotomy.
Lkpxr TIL that there is a mountain of evidence that humans can perceive colours that exist outside of the normal spectrum—they're called 'impossible colors' and they're quite literally indescribable
R7XA4 TIL that on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave me “colly birds”, aka blackbirds, not “calling birds” until “calling birds” became more popular in the 1970s.
69GmJ TIL the Double Sunrise are the longest commercial aircraft flights in history. Flown by Qantas during WWII between Western Australia and Sri Lanka through Japanese occupied territory, each flight lasted over 27 hours. Passengers would see two sunrises while airborne