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TIL that in Japan, some 7.53 million computers at offices and local governments and 6.38 million at households were still using Windows 7 as of January 2020, comprising around 20 percent of all active Windows computers in the country

nWylG TIL that National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts is the world’s largest performing art theater under one roof, and cost roughly $320 million USD to build
wLRV1 TIL At age 24, George Ellery Hale revolutionized solar observations with his invention of the spectroheliograph, making it possible to photograph the sun's prominences in full daylight. A spectroheliograph can tune-in to gases such as hydrogen and calcium, and photograph specific solar details
Bg4LK TIL: The first computer virus, "Creeper," was created in 1971 as an experiment. It displayed the message, "I'M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" on infected systems. It was followed by the first antivirus, "Reaper," specifically designed to remove Creeper.
wLbb6 TIL that Spain's King Philip II (after whom the Philippines are named) became King of England and Ireland when he married England's Queen Mary I, reigning jointly with his wife. As he couldn't read English it was ordered that a note of all matters of state should be made in Latin or Spanish
0wl85 TIL that the Judge Rotenberg Center, a SPED (Special-needs Education) School in Massachusetts, has been, and still is, using electroshock devices and other violent means to “discipline” misbehaving students.