› added 7 months ago

31

TIL - Computers were people (mostly women) up until WWII. Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

aw8XL TIL the British supermarket chain Iceland has an EU-wide trademark on their name, and take legal action against Icelandic companies that use it. The Icelandic government has applied to have their trademark invalidated, so far without success.
465R TIL that it’s easier to have an orgasm while wearing socks.
6BLX TIL that The voice actor for the Earl of Lemongrab on adventure time, Justin Roiland, created a short movie of Marty Mcfly having oral sex with Doc brown, which would later become the show Rick and morty
PL7g TIL that women generally had more legal rights under Islamic law than they did under Western legal systems until more recent times
QeAE TIL that Sigmund Freud’s nephew exploited women’s aspirations for a better life by encouraging them to smoke, thus fighting their ‘oppression’