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TIL In his last will and testament (25 March 1616), William Shakespeare left his second-best bed to his wife, Anne Hathaway.

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YpMjd TIL about Yasuteru Yamada, a retired engineer who after watching the news coverage of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, organized a group of 200+ fellow retirees and volunteered to go to the site and assist in the cleanup so the younger generation didn't have to and risk exposure to radiation.
X0Z16 TIL The burglary tools used throughout in the film Thief (1981) were not props, but real tools which the actors were trained to use. The tools were supplied by real-life thieves who served as technical consultants on the film.
WkbWB TIL Condom was first used in 3000 BC by Pasiphae, wife of King Minos, because he was said to have “serpents and scorpions” in his semen and his mistresses died after having intercourse with him
oBANo TIL that the African country of "Swaziland" has changed its name to "Eswatini" in April 2018.
0xLj TIL the most accurate Moon Phase wrist watch can accurately track the moon’s phase for the next 2,060,757 years - so accurate that by the time you’d need to adjust it by a day, an Earth day would be 37 seconds longer and all calculations would be null and void. Plus you’d be dead.