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TIL that Shakespeare had Merlin delusions

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p5gZ TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch is actually related to Alan Turing
5Yomk TIL there was a baboon named Jack who, for nine years, helped a man with two peg legs switch tracks for trains and never once made a mistake.
5YKZ9 TIL the Bopal Chemical Disaster in India, where a methyl-isocyanate leak (500 times deadlier than hydrogen cyanide) from a factory killed more than 8000 residents in one night. The MIC leak went undetected due to the factory's earlier removal of the alarm siren in order to not disturb its neighbours
4XrVX TIL Most of our 60 trillion dollar stock and bond markets are non-physical AND unsecured.
l7LR5 TIL in 1912, a man found the skull of a prehistoric "missing link" in the human evolutionary chain. In 1953, it was discovered that the skull was that of a medieval human with an orangutan jaw and fossilized chimpanzee teeth. "The Piltdown Man" become the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever.