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TIL Today is the 197th birthday of the author of the first computer algorithm, Ada Lovelace.

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my1O TIL that French chef Bernard Loiseau committed suicide in 2003 after Michelin told him that they were concerned about the quality of his restaurant’s cooking.
e0jdg TIL why the term "Paradigm shift" came to be. Initially coined by Thomas Kuhn as "Paradigm change" Kuhn realized there were certain discoveries(revolutions) that so fundamentally changed the way we saw the world.
R99a TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
ANObl TIL Chicory has been a historic substitute for coffee. Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia which led to the mass production of chicory by 1795 and the chicory drinks were common in Napoleonic France. Chicory drinks also became popular in Confederate states because of the Union blockade.
PYrvg TIL Barcodes were first invented to track railroad cars traveling across the country in the 1960s. A colored barcode was attached to steel plates on the side of train cars and scanned as they entered and exited railroad facilities.