10. Shakespeare's son, Folger, founded a library in his name which still stands today

11. Angered at how Shakespeare represented him on stage, Henry VIII burned down the Original Globe

12. Aubrey's Brief Lives of Beaumont mentioned that Beaumont and Fletcher shared 'a wench'. That wench was Shakespeare. via @philistella

Hmmm maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase that? I mean of course, to thank @philistella for reminding me of this Important Fact

13. Love's Labour's Won was Shakespeare's best play. Unlucky,

14. Shakespeare moved back to Stratford because he was priced out of the absurd London house market

15. Not even Shakespeare liked The Merry Wives of Windsor.

16. Elizabeth I quite enjoyed Shakespeare's plays but thought he was "a cocky little shit"

17. The Only way to speak Shakespeare's words is with extreme reverence. The more extreme the more the verse makes sense.

18. Shakespeare was so beloved that James I renamed the King's Men 'Shakespeare's Company'

19. Each copy of the First Folio contains a Horcrux.

20. Shakespeare based the plot of The Tempest on Love Island

21. As @Jarona7 points out, Shakespeare is famously quotable. In fact, he ghost wrote many of Churchill's more famous speeches

22. Shakespeare was actually born on the Fourth of July

23. Shakespeare thought he was writing in trochaic pentameter. He was just really bad at prosody

24. Shakespeare's plays only work when played on a thrust stage. If you try and use a proscenium Shakespeare's Ghost appears to tell you off

I am going to walk the dog. Please do not like the initial tweet.

25. Shakespeare wrote the Tom Bombadil scenes in The Lord of the Rings

26. Shakespeare was buried in 1616 in Roswell, New Mexico. Cursed be he who moves his bones

27. The 2012 Olympics were held in honour of Shakespeare, the first Olympian.

28. The 2012 Olympics honoured Shakespeare by hosting the event in his home town of Stratford. West Hamlet United now play in his stadium

29. Shakespeare's dad was a glove maker that is why Shakespeare named his theatre The Glove

30. Although Shakespeare's first album was a hit his second flopped. It was then that he coined the phrase 'difficult second album'

31. Shakespeare spelled his name lots of different ways: 'Shakspeare', 'Shaksper', 'Shakspere', 'the Earl of Oxford'.

32. Shakespeare is sadly dead but his hologram lives on

33. David Garrick secretly preferred Thomas Middleton

34. Shakespeare had insufferable nicknames for all of his mates. The Fletch, Burbs, Kempy etc.

35. Shakespeare didn't have a mother because, as I have told you before, there were no women in Elizabethan England

36. After Henry VIII burned down the Globe Shakespeare bravely defied the king's wishes by rebuilding it out of asbestos.

37. After the asbestos Globe opened, Shakespeare wrote Wolf Hall. An audacious move.

38. In an even more audacious move, Shakespeare used his own skull as a prop in Hamlet.

39. All of Shakespeare's jokes are *deliberately* unfunny

40. Although Shakespeare had little Latin and less Greek he was fluent in Hebrew, Javascript, and Elvish

41. Shakespeare got a C in his A-Level General Studies

42. Scholars tend to assume that Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a dog. Nope, definitely a crab.

43. Shakespeare thought really hard about the most annoying person he could possibly imagine. Then he wrote Puck.

44. Shakespeare came up with the concept for Strictly Come Dancing but sadly he died before he got to see Ed Balls dancing to Gangnam Style

45. Shakespeare also thought up the Great British Bake Off but it wasn't popular. He lived with the taunts - 'Bakespheare', 'Cakespheare' &c

46. Shakespeare said the universities of today are better than the universities of the seventeenth century. IN YOUR FACE, ANDREW ADONIS

BTW I hope you are all reading these tweets in the voice of James Shapiro

Another thought before we move on. Despite the name, Trevor Nunn is not a real nun. That's been bugging me for the last hour

47. Shakespeare became friends with King Edward VI while they were both at school together

48. Shakespeare wrote The Devil Wears Prada for his wife, Anne Hathaway, who had a lead role

49. Shakespeare retired to his New Place residence, just over the road from Hussains, his favourite curry house

50. A big one: Shakespeare was the only dramatist writing in the 16th/17th centuries. There were no others. Restoration drama doesn't count

51. Shakespeare not only wrote the King James Bible, he also wrote all the works attributed to James VI/I

52. In fact, scholars debate about whether Shakespeare invented the idea of James VI/I. Did he do it? No one knows.

53. Shakespeare never blotted out a line. Towards the end his cocaine addiction really got out of hand

54. Shakespeare wrote The Shawshank Redemption after breaking out of the Marshalsea

55. People say Shakespeare was wrong to give Bohemia a coast in The Winter's Tale. They're wrong. Bohemia was an island in Shakespeare's day

56. But less frequently remarked upon is that Shakespeare wrote Bohemian Rhapsody (listen carefully, you can hear him on backing vocals)

57. There's a hidden play in The First Folio but to unlock it you must successfully rank all of the plays in the Folio in order of quality

58. Shakespeare loved hot chocolate. If you read the sonnets carefully, this becomes clear. Biographers have so far missed it

59. If Shakespeare was alive today and both in 1994 instead of 1564 he would be a millennial. Think on that.

^ This one is true too but it should #makeuthink ^

60. Shakespeare respected Jonson, but he didn't envy his plays. Except for Sejanus. He bloody loved Sejanus.

What a life he had! Someone should write a biography of this guy

61. Shakespeare was inspired to write drama after watching morality plays as a child in Warwickshire. He loved Geordie Shore & TOWIE

62. Shakespeare was was begot between two stockfish.

63. Shakespeare invented the hummus

64. Shakespeare was inspired to write Cymbeline during a bad family holiday in Pembrokeshire

65. Using the insights of original pronunciation we now know that Shakespeare sounded exactly like Christopher Walken

66. Shakespeare only wrote a couple of words of Cardenio. It was all Fletcher. And Cervantes. Sorry.

67. Scholars are resistant to talk about the much shorter 0.5 quarto of Hamlet which ends "To be or not be at there's the - ah fuck it"

68. Shakespeare loved it when people called the Globe 'Shakespeare's Globe' but was annoyed that 'Shakespeare's Blackfriars' didn't catch on

69. Shakespeare wanted his body to be frozen so it could be preserved for all time. Ben Jonson thought that was OTT. A poem would suffice

70. Scholars assume that Burbage was Shakespeare's favourite actor. Wrong. He loved Hugh Laurie's House

71. Fletcher invented the phrase 'jumped the shark' after he persuaded Shakespeare to cut the shark jumping scene in The Two Noble Kinsmen

72. You can imagine the taunts he received after this: 'Sharkspeare' etc

73. Shakespeare wrote the fly-killing scene after trying to catch a fly in his living room. "This will be great for Titus" he thought

74. A little known fact, the Vengaboys turned several of Shakespeare's plays into musical numbers in the early eighteenth-century

75. Shakespeare developed his love for drama by going to the local theatre in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario.

Taking a break from this but may return later. In the meantime look out for my new book True Shakespeare Facts (Earl of Oxford Press, 2018)

Out in time for the next REF. Am available for newspaper interviews, media appearances and any other Impact opportunities

76. I mentioned The Vengaboys earlier. They did Boom Boom Boom Boom I Want You in My Rome, or The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

77. 'Shake it Off' by @taylorswift13 is an anti-Bardolatry anthem which is why she waited until after Shakespeare died to release it

78. Shakespeare was of an age AND for all time. Why the binary thinking, Jonson?

79. Justin Bieber started his career as a child actor in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

80. The Willow song in Othello is actually about cricket.

81. People go on about the anachronistic clocks in Julius Caesar but Marcus Junius Brutus praised the play's historical accuracy

82. Although he is usually cut from performance, David Starkey is a character in Henry VIII.

83. Shakespeare was stung by a Portuguese Man o'War which washed up on the beach of Bohemia

84. Shakespeare was taught how to write by his dad, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Father of English Poetry (TM) c.f. @RobertaDMagnani

85. George Wilkins is a made up person.

86. Every October, Shakespeare liked to change his Twitter name to ShakesFear

87. Hamlet was actually written by Anthony Munday

88. Shakespeare's trophy cabinet: 1 Olivier, 1 Oscar, 2 Razzies, the Intertoto Cup

89. Shakespeare's favourite character in The Wire was McNulty. FFS. Of all the ones to choose...

90. Shakespeare invented the Moomins

91. Shakespeare kept a hedge-pig as a pet. He made a cameo in Macbeth

92. Shakespeare is not as good as Aphra Behn. Aphra said that. She may be right though

93. Shakespeare wanted to call Titus Andronicus Titus and Ronicus but George Peele told him the comic double act idea was bad

94. My initial tweet now has 378 likes. That's one for each year of Shakespeare's life

95. Shakespeare was pipped to the Christmas Number 1 by the Ballad of the Lamentable Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet

96. Shakespeare once deliberately injured Gordon Ramsay in a charity football match

97. During the height of Britpop, Shakespeare was thrown out of the Mermaid Tavern for brawling with Liam Gallagher

98. Shakespeare has several times attempted to perform a citizen's arrest on noted war criminal Tony Blair

99. Shakespeare wrote the song '99 Red Balloons'

100. Never mind the portrait of Elizabeth I, the Chandos Portrait recently received a 'spectacular' restoration.

101. In the Original production of Hamlet, Ophelia had a theme tune which Simon and Garfunkel later appropriated

102. Shakespeare has a cameo in #Gunpowder.

103. "The truth is out there" - Hamlet

104. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife - Henry 6 Part 2

105. Shakespeare was a staff writer on The Simpsons back when it was good. It went downhill big time when Sir John Suckling took over

106. The Bear in The Winter's Tale was chasing Antigonus because he has dropped his wallet. Has been severely misrepresented #bfconf17

107. The Bear in the Winter's Tale is called Colin.

108. Ironically, Jonson's 'To the Reader' is almost always misread. It actually ends:, 'reader looke/Not on his picture, but his facebooke'

109. The first quarto of Tom Stoppard's play was called Rossencraft and Gilderstone Are Dead

110. Shakespeare wanted to call tweets 'duodecimos' but it didn't catch on

111. Shakespearean staging was very literal. When Hamlet talked about holding a mirror up to nature he literally held up a mirror to a tree

112. When Greensleeves came on in the club, Shakespeare and his boys would shout 'Tuuuuuuuuune'

113. Shakespeare's name encloses a reference to the aurthorship of the plays: Will I Am Shakespeare, or http://will.i.am  Shakespeare

114. Shakespeare wasn't born in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was actually born in Tiddington

115. Shakespeare used to spell Ben Jonson's surname with a H just to piss him off

116. Shakespeare's hot takes were so hot they would burn your eyes if you read them

117. Like this thread, Shakespeare will never go away, he goes on, for infinity, never stopping, never sleeping & haunting your hopes and dr

118. Each time a football commentator describes a bad bit of defending as 'a comedy of errors' Shakespeare spins round in his grave

119. Shakespeare taught classes about Brexit at The Universities. He infected vulnerable young minds with the Propaganda of the Remainers

120. Shakespeare wanted to call Timon of Athens Timon of Athenry but Thomas Middleton said that would make no sense @emeramchugh can confirm

121. Shakespeare's favourite emoji was

122. Every Halloween Shakespeare dressed up as the nightgown-clad ghost from Q1 Hamlet

123. Graziano's reference to 'Nerissa's ring' is actually an allusion to Haribo friendship rings and is not a dirty joke at all

124. The Merchant of Venice is misnamed. It's actually The Merchant of Venus but, you, know, early modern spelling and all that

125. Shakespeare stole Christmas

126. Although Shakespeare was well-travelled - he visited Padua, Verona, Bohemia & ancient Rome - he surprisingly did not visit Swindon

127. Shakespeare was once sent off for kung fu kicking a Hampton Court Palace fan