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Today I learned that Shakespeare signed his name a number of different ways, and only more recently did people settle on the accepted spelling

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gG9W TIL a barcode reader actually reads the white space, not the black
wLYQJ TIL: Bermuda is the first country in the world to have re-criminalised same sex marriage. The bill repealing same sex marriage was passed in December 2017, and the bill comes into effect on June 1st 2018.
9Y6QM TIL that one medium McDonald's milk shake contains 630 calories, the same as a whole average dinner meal. One milkshake also contains 90g sugar which is more than your daily maximum recommended sugar intake of around 75g.
E1AW0 TIL after finishing the 2012 Olympics as the most successful swimmer of the meet for the third Olympics in a row, Michael Phelps contemplated suicide
wLZOo TIL that prior to shooting Raging Bull, Robert De Niro trained under Jake LaMotta (whom he played) and actually won 2 of his 3 middleweight fights that he entered in Brooklyn. LaMotta himself felt that De Niro was a natural and was one of the 20 best middleweight boxers of all time.