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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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AEX4 TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout is very inefficient when compared to alternatives. It was originally created to “slow down” typists in order to decrease the chances of jamming the typewriter. However, the layout still endures today as we use it almost exclusively.
1ApP TIL “The Wonder Years” hasn’t been released on DVD because rights to Joe Cocker’s version of “With a Little Help From My Friends” could never be secured. Netflix and Amazon use an alternate version of the song.
rR1Y4 TIL the reason Mr. Rogers said out loud he was feeding his fish was because a visually disabled fan wrote in and said she was worried about the fish.
x6kgB TIL the WannaCry ransomware attack was propagated using EternalBlue, an exploit developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) which was stolen and leaked a month prior
6EL8l TIL a 9 yr old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim, was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) until 2008. When she suffered cardiac arrest in 2011, Bill Gates assembled an international panel of doctors to advise the local physicians treating her and offered to pay for treatment in the U.S.