whatcha talkin bout willis.

Did you know William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23. Or that in his will he left he left his wife his "second best" bed, and thats all.(3)
William Shakespeare was known for writing plays, or writing sonnets. Most people don't know alot of other things about him. Like there was never a portrait painted of him, while he was alive. (2) Or simply that he married a woman eight years older than him. I found some of the wierdest, most unusual facts about William that I could find.
W.I.L.L.I.A.M S.H.A.K.E.S.P.E.A.R.E. Is this how you spell William Shakespeare? There's more than eighty spelling variations that are recorded for his name, from Shappere to Shaxberd.(4) Personally I only spell my name one way, and I only sign it the same spelling everytime. William never spelt his name the same, when he signed something it was always different. That would be SO hard to try to find him, once he changed his name over and over and over.
The average human knows around 12,000 to 20,000 words, Shakespeare wrote 31,534 words. 14,376 only appear once in his work.(5)
Who's the most popular, Elvis or William? Shakespeare merits 15 million pages on google, while Elvis comes in at a mere 2.7 million.(6)
Macbeth is said to be the most-produced play ever written. It is estimated that a performance is being staged somewhere in the world every four hours.(6) By that timing, you could get out of one performance, and get in line to watch another.
Do you believe in coincidence? Here's some wierd Shakespearian numbers for you. William Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, 1564. He died on April 23rd. His plays were first performed in 1588, when he was 23. The first Filio of Shakespeare's work was published in 1623.(1)
William Shakespeare has many things people don't know, or can't find out that easily, but there is always something that people might find funny, or wierd. William's secrets were kept pretty well, and these were the main facts I found that were interesting.