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TIL Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch, and her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech was rewritten to sound more stereotypically Black

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ADdbg TIL, audio content (or computer data) that was normally expected to use audio cassettes for early computers was also distributed on vinyl record type media too.
9YkMB TIL before it became male-dominated, computer programming was a promising career choice for women, who were considered "naturals" at it. Computer scientist Dr. Grace Hopper said programming was "like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ready when you need it."
b9d40 TIL that future US President Ulysses S. Grant ordered all Jews be expelled from areas under his military control in 1862, blaming them for black market cotton trading. Lincoln overruled the order less than a month later.
KYll9 TIL the strange case of the famous writer of crime stories Agatha Christie vanishing for 11 days in 1926 at the top of her career, allegedly for loss of memory
xdyo TIL a road called the King’s Highway was built from Boston MA to Charleston SC starting in 1650, on the order of King Charles II. Its northern section had been a Native American path for so long before that it was dug 2 feet into the ground, and it evolved into the first highways in North America.