› added 11 months ago

58

TIL Leonard DaVinci wrote most of his papers backwards.

Read more historyfacts.com

via reddit.com

gOv8 TIL that, in Switzerland, it is legal to downloaded pirated movies/music for private use. They even conducted a study and found piracy does not affect sales.
VMj8Z TIL about “Peter Bergmann”, a man that visited Ireland 11 years ago under an alias, was found dead on a beach and has never been identified.
bMx4 TIL if you stare at yourself in a mirror 1.5m away, you’re looking at yourself 10 nanoseconds in the past (ignoring visual processing time)
5YKWR TIL that between 1958 and 1967 Charles Lindbergh (born 1902) secretly fathered seven children with three women in Germany. He would visit the children once or twice a year but used the alias Careu Kent and they did not learn his true identity until a decade after his death.
0KPM TIL Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms