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SCIENCE FACTS

  • Your brain has around 100 billion nerve cells.
  • An adult human is thought to contain around 7 Octillion atoms!!
  • Your brain is more powerful, more complex and cleverer than any computer ever built.

INTERESTING HISTORY FACTS

  • There were female gladiators in Ancient Rome! A female gladiator was called a gladiatrix (plural gladiatrices). They were extremely rare, unlike their male counterparts.
  • The world’s most successful pirate in history was a lady named Ching Shih. She was a prostitute in China until the Commander of the Red Flag Fleet bought and married her. But her husband considered her his equal, and she became an active pirate commander in the fleet.

William Shakespeare Facts

– Playwright, Actor Poet –

also known as “The Bard of Avon”

  • During his lifetime, William Shakespearewrote around 37 playsfor the theatre and over 150 poems! No one can say the exact number, because some of his work may have been lost over time – and some may have been written with the help of other people.
  • William was born in Stratford-upon-Avonin 1564, during England’s Tudor period. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a well-to-do glove-maker and leather worker, and his wife, Mary Arden, an heiress from a wealthy family.
  • His date of birth remains a mystery and little is known of his early years
  • William was part of a theatre company called Lord Chamberlain’s Men, who regularly performed at a place called ‘The Theatre’. But after a dispute with the landlord, they took the building apart, rebuilt it across the river and named it the Globe.
  • Shakespeare’s plays were immediately big hits! He wrote different kinds of plays, all of which could be divided into three categories:
    Tragedy – including HamletOthelloKing Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
    Comedy – including Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew
    History – including Henry IVHenry V and Richard III
  • Towards the end of his life, William lived quietly back in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. He died on 23 April 1616, aged 52, after falling ill. It’s believed he may have died on his birthday, but without an official birth record, no one can be sure!

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