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TIL the historic Booth Theatre on Broadway (Currently running Tony Winner Kimberly Akimbo) is named after presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth's older brother, Edwin Booth.

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YDld TIL Hong Kong is lead by a CEO rather than a state official. It is literally run as a business, with China recognising it more as an economic entity than a city.
JK1m TIL North Dakota ranks #1 in the U.S. in beer consumption per capita with an average adult drinking 45.8 gallons of beer per year.
XEg98 TIL: Of the Losr Apple Project. They go around to abandoned farms and orchards looking for Apple varieties thought to be extinct. This year 10 varieties were recovered, a record.
bx9p TIL the stimulating effects of coffee were first observed in the 9th century by goat herders who noticed their goats started ‘dancing’ after eating coffee berries.
N8rb TIL The Last Emperor of China lived until 1967, and was a communist prisoner for years tending a vegetable garden simply as “Prisoner No. 981”