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

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m15GP TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living".
Deep TIl that in the game “The Darkness” the entire film, To Kill A Mockingbird is shown on a tv, along with 2 other films, an episode of Flash Gordon, and episodes of Popeye.
YwmP TIL The allies used a ghost inflatable army to trick Hitlers forces.
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Zpeao TIL in 2009 Elena Bodnar invented a brassiere with cups that can be separated and converted into two emergency face masks -- one for the wearer of the bra, and one to be given to a needy bystander