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TIL the name Jessica was invented by William Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice.

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5VBNp TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
X0kkk TIL in 2017, a man in Soka, Japan was arrested for stalking and assaulting young girls. He told the police that he copied the plan from the manga "Geiger Counter" where girls were assaulted by a man imitating a utility worker. Police requested that the author be more considerate in future works.
0wo5N TIL that there was an Indian Legion, also known as the "Indische Freiwilligen Legion der Waffen-SS", that joined the Nazis and fought in France, Italy, and the Battle of Berlin. Their goal was to gain independence for British-ruled India.
gMGjW TIL that there are apocalypse guidestones in Georgia with rules on how to rebuild society in 8 languages.
Eg8eX TIL that in 1997 Oprah Winfrey was sued for, 'disparaging beef,' after an outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease in humans) in Great Britain stopped her from eating burgers.