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TIL that William Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway

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x690o TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book "The girl from Petrovka". Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif.
6EGBQ TIL that in 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes. These cameras had special lenses that use infrared light, which allowed you to see through some types of clothing.
E1QB7 TIL there is a fungus which looks like a sponge and its actual scientific name is Spongiforma squarepantsii.
W7DMX TIL about Henry Wickham, the English "bio-pirate" who broke Brazil's global rubber monopoly in 1876 by smuggling 70,000 seeds to London. He lied to customs, and the resulting Asian plantations crashed the Brazilian economy.
BgGRL TIL that the first ever global satellite broadcast aired live on 25 June 1967, featuring the Beatles performing “All You Need Is Love” to 400 million people. The song opened with with the first few bars of the French national anthem and closed with snippets of Bach and Glenn Miller.