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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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4k96N TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.
9Ywxm TIL The virus that causes cold sores is known as the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Despite popular myth, it is almost impossible to catch herpes from contaminated surfaces, towels, or washcloths
VZap TIL As a result of writing ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ Erich Remarque’s sister was beheaded by the Nazis and the bill for her beheading sent to his other sister.
9Y5GQ TIL the president and vice-president can't be from the same state.
OdX4 TIL there was a German town which reportedly disappeared after it was washed away by the North Sea in the year 1362. Historians are confident that it existed, however there is debate over where it originally was located. It is sometimes called “the Atlantis of the North Sea.”