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TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance

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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.
XWNE TIL that in 1772, Alexander Hamilton survived a hurricane in the Caribbean and wrote a letter about his ordeal. His vivid descriptions moved people to start a fund to move him to New York to get an education. He went on to become a Founding Father and greatly shaped our early nation.
eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"
8aYEK TIL that between 991 and 1018, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England paid an important economic tribute to the Viking invaders worth circa 2.8 million troy oz in silver coins. This explains why today there are still more Anglo-Saxon silver coins in Denmark than in England.
76m7 TIL Prince once rented Carlos Boozer’s house in LA, then proceeded to renovate it without permission, then gave Carlos Boozer $1 million to undo the renovations.