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TIL mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth

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aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
VXJ8 TIL When a Shakespearean actor has “dried” (forgotten their lines mid-scene), some will start “nubbing,” which means to make up a fake Shakespearean line on the spot. Usually their fake speech will contain the word “nub” or “nubbing” as a cue to their fellow actors that they are stuck.
epa44 TIL the Bruce effect, or pregnancy block, is the tendency for female rodents to terminate their pregnancies following exposure to the scent of an unfamiliar male. The effect was first noted in 1959 by Hilda M. Bruce and has primarily been studied in laboratory mice.
v11P8 TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that building a flying machine would be possible in 1-10 Million years.
xQoB TIL it is common for spiders to eat their own web daily to reuse the silk proteins.