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TIL all that remains of Shakespeare’s handwriting are six signatures, none of which are spelt ‘Shakespeare’.

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GARb4 TIL On the morning of 27 August 1883, on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, a volcanic eruption produced pressure waves that went around the Earth three and a half times, being heard as far away as Australia and Mauritius.
lom05 TIL that Helmut Kentler, a German psychologist fostered neglected children with pedophiles in an experiment with government support for decades. By the time his victims came forward, the statute of limitations for his actions had expired leaving his victims without justice or compensation.
OZ6e TIL in 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”
pG6p TIL when the 28 year-old Richard Branson bought Necker Island in the 1970s, the asking price was $5 million. Branson successfully negotiated it down to $180,000. The island is worth upwards of $200 million today.
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