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TIL Leonardo da Vinci did detailed experiments to understand the nature of gravity long before Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.

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69QJ7 TIL after the first time Ginevra King rejected F. Scott Fitzgerald, he dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the army in order to commit suicide-by-combat on the Western front. He hastily wrote and submitted his first book, which launched his career, and was obsessed with her over his entire life
W7wW8 TIL that the first recorded hack occurred in 1903. While Guglielmo Marconi was publicly demonstrating his new "secure" wireless telegraph, rival inventor Nevil Maskelyne managed to broadcast rude poems to the receiver, accusing Marconi of "diddling the public".
VBMk4 TIL that during the French Revolution, Adrienne de La Fayette, the wife of Marquis de La Fayette, was imprisoned. However, before her planned execution, Elizabeth Monroe, the wife of Future President James Monroe, intervened. Not wanting to cut ties with James Monroe, France did not execute her.
m1blY TIL in pre-Islamic Arabia two cousin tribes went to war with each other when a tribe leader killed a she-camel belonging to the other which in turn caused him to be assassinated. It lasted 40 years and is estimated to have killed thousands.
9YrWG TIL - Michael Schumacher donated $10m in aid after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. This surpassed the amount given by any other individual, sports team/league, corporation, and even some countries. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.