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TIL Shakespeare’s name is spelt differently in all six of his known signatures, and none of them is spelt ‘William Shakespeare’.

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Z8Pwo TIL that Matt Stutzmann- a man without arms- holds the record in archery for the farthest accurate shot under FITA conditions. The shot is on 283.47 m (930.04 ft)!
XEo8P TIL that Nutraloaf is a food served in prisons in the United States and Canada to prisoners who have misbehaved. Due to its lack of flavor, it has been banned in several states where food cannot be used as punishment
OoOae TIL that a USSR physicist published his equations for solving reflected electromagnetic waves from surfaces, as the Soviet authorities considered them insignificant for military purposes. His work was found by Lockheed in the 1970s, leading to a breakthrough in developing their stealth plane F-117.
grlLb TIL that pronouncing Arkansas as "Arkansaw" is required by Arkansas state law. "-as" is how French explorers spelled what they heard local Indians say as their name for the region, which Americans spelled as "-aw". The 1881 law honors the French spelling and Indian pronunciation.
VMOZ0 TIL that in 2012, a “guru” tricked a French family out of €4.5M by convincing them that they were the target of a secret conspiracy and that their lives were in danger. He persuaded them into barricading themselves into their family chateau, and then in a suburban house in Oxford.