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TIL that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve, the full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

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loBnr TIL There is a still-commissioned U.S. Navy ship that has been held captive by North Korea for 50 years; the USS Pueblo.
P1YOe TIL of "Unit 731", a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.
wL7eE TIL of John Taylor, a charlatan from the 18th century, parading from town to town doing bogus eye operations, and allegedly blinding hundreds of people, including famous composers Handel, and Bach.
EdQW TIL in 1993 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders recommended that the Government study the idea of legalizing drugs and suggested that doing so might reduce violent crimes. She was fired about a week later by President Clinton.
KOKO4 TIL that Matt Damon was offered the lead in Avatar and 10% of the film's profits — but he turned it down out of respect for the Bourne franchise, and ended up losing out on $250 million as a result.