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TIL If a baby in a picture has a red eye effect only on one eye the kid might have retinoblastoma (the type of cancer).

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epP55 TIL: There are 10 geographic/state panhandles in the US. West Virginia has 2. The others are Alaska; Florida; Texas; Nebraska; Idaho; Maryland; Oklahoma & Connecticut
gMDkX TIL Grant Imahara from Mythbusters was one of three people who operated the R2-D2's in the Star Wars prequels and he updated all of the electronics on 12 R2 units.
ZknR TIL that Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
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