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TIL Bill Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, for a whopping $30.8 million, and made it openly available on Windows Vista.

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yVnGJ TIL that in 2008, Italy's top court banned a couple from naming their newborn son "Venerdi", which in Italian means Friday, since it was a ridiculous name that would expose the boy to mockery
X0DE6 TIL Kane Hodder appeared in character as Jason Voorhees on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989 to promote "Jason Takes Manhattan", being interviewed as if Jason was a real killer. He remained silent throughout the interview.
JYVyQ TIL In 1880, Queen Sunanda Kumariratana, her daughter and her unborn child drowned as the royal guard watched, because in Siam touching a member of the royal family was punishable by death. The guard was later put to death for being too strict. Even if he'd saved her, he would've been killed anyways
E1noo Planking for longer than 10 seconds is pointless, according to one professor.
QZBL TIL the average horse has 14.9 horsepower