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TIL of the Hymn Virus. A Virus from 1990 that would brick MS-DOS computers and played the Soviet National Anthem.

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om08 TIL that Queen Elizabeth I granted English theatre companies the right to forcibly recruit children to be performers. Shakespeare disapproved of this practice and refused to use abducted children in his plays.
GYbrN TIL that Bangkok's full name is "Krungthep Mahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathani Burirom-udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amonphiman Awatansathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit"
JYvj8 TIL of Afrihili, a constructed language designed in 1970 by Ghanaian historian K. A. Kumi Attobrah (Kumi Atɔbra) to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa
6DMQ TIL Of children born in Mexican prisons, who live with their mothers and have never experienced the outside world.
VjZp TIL Quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average teacher only scored better than 42% of students. By 2008, it was only up to 50%. This was done by requiring qualifications such as actually having degrees in whatever they are teaching.