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TIL that William Shakespeare invented many popular phrases for his plays that we still use in everyday life, including: 'vanish into thin air,' 'there's a method to my madness,' 'wild-goose chase",' 'wear my heart upon my sleeve,' 'love is blind,' 'to come full circle,' etc.

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6mJ8 TIL that Guyana is the only South American country that isn’t part of Latin America because it’s official language is not Spanish, French or Portuguese.
vrpL TIL That Pornhub is crowdfunding $3.4 million to film an adult movie in space.
mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.
YpQAx TIL the Nazi war machine of WWII was not fully mechanized, and was heavily reliant on horses for transport
E1kjW TIL on 1529, Hernán Cortés received the Marquessate of the Valley of Oaxaca as a fief in Mexico