[chagen]

Ada Lovelace's father was Lord Byron?! TIL

[teruakohatu]

Sadly for her she never knew him. The parents split up, he left England and she stayed with her mother. Byron died when she was just eight years old.

[toyg]

Look for Sydney Padua's comics for a lot of weird and strange facts about Lovelace and Babbage. (To be fair, Babbage was much weirder)

[rg111]

I was surprised to learn that as well.

I learned about it in Walter Isaacson's Innovators.