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TIL that During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sewn into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames

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XZD TIL Rudyard Kipling urged his 18-year-old son John to join WWI. He had such bad eyesight that he was repeatedly turned down. Kipling used his friendship with the Commander-In-Chief of the Army to get him in. John was sent into battle, where an exploding shell ripped his face apart.
xVdwk TIL that William Shakespeare was inspired to write "Hamlet" - a play driven by the grief of a son for his father - by the death of his own son, Hamnet, who died at age 11. He began work on Hamlet a couple of years later. Until that time he had most been writing comedy plays.
Me6a8 TIL Timothée Chalamet & Luca Guadagnino both independently experimented with a peach to test the authenticity of a pitted peach being used in the narrative as a masturbation tool.
QNv4L TIL in 2014, a toddler died after his dad accidentally left him in a hot car for 7 hours. A jury sentenced him to life without parole because he was having an affair that day, making them believe he left his son to die to start a new life. A surpreme court overturned the 'unfair' conviction in 2022.
9w56B TIL that the cast of the office in earlier seasons are seen playing solitaire bc they were bored during downtimes and with no wifi installed, could only play solitaire. In later seasons when the wifi is installed, they're encouraged to do other things on their computer (browsing)