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TIL that the QWERTY keyboard was set up so that the top row has all the letters needed to spell typewriter

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69E9X TIL Paul Rusesabagina, the man that the movie Hotel Rwanda is based on, was kidnapped from Dubai to Rwanda in August 2020 to stand trial for a made-up charge because he criticized the current Rwandan government. This was his first time in Rwanda since a 1996 assassination attempt
JEo4 TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, “…the books [started] to show it after a while. ‘Misery’ is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
6EaW TIL that the 1999 film “The Mummy” was so successful that the morning after it was released Universal Studios phoned the director and said “we need another one”
XEjOD TIL Casu Marzu is a sheep milk cheese where live maggots are introduced to partially decompose it before human consumption. And it’s only available on the black market.
16rd7 TIL that Huey and Riley from Boondocks were voiced by the same woman, Regina King.