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TIL that the composer of the Broadway musical RENT died hours before the first performance of the show. He would go on to win three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, but never got to see the show performed for an audience.

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N7QDQ TIL that Boston Corbett - the man who killed John Wilkes Booth (the man who killed Abraham Lincoln) - most likely suffered from psychosis due to inhaling mercury fumes in his job as a hatter, and once castrated himself with a pair of scissors
4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
e09GJ TIL about the "tragic mulatto" character which existed in early American entertainment. They were portrayed as a biracial black person who was light enough to pass as white, but was not accepted by either white or black society. They were oftentimes depicted as suicidal and self-hating.
OGnye TIL that Dorothy's line to the Scarecrow 'I think I'll miss you most of all' is a holdover from the original script where she and the farmhand played the same actor had a romance
LaeQ TIL America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke intended to humiliate women, but instead she won over 60% of the vote.