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TIL Leonardo da Vinci may have written backwards not for secrecy, but because he is left handed and it was easier for him to do.

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4xa6 TIL that during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
eov4 TIL of Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. He had 37 wounds from bullets, bayonets, and shrapnel. Thought to be dead, he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.
oBn5r TIL that the dome of the Neutrino detector under the mount Gran Sasso (Italy), has been done with bricks of lead 2000 years old found in a anciet Roman ship
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