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TIL: Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Hammer was purchased for $30,802,500 in 1994 by Bill Gates; 3 years later he released a digital version of the historic diary for all the world to enjoy.

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Lk8yQ TIL Pigs will eat every part of the human body (including bones) and, if left alone with it for long enough, will fully consume the body.
eppnL TIL prostate cancer is the cancer a non-smoking man is most likely to die from in the US.
9v6M TIL that Canadian Police once found a marijuana plantation guarded by 13 black bears
JY4ok TIL that after its infamous explosion in 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant reported a fire in 1991; and it wasn’t until the year 2000 that the power station was fully shut down.
KLQ4 TIL Sir Francis Bacon, known for his phrase that “knowledge is power”, wrote the first book on the growing of terrestrial plants in a soilless environment. That practice would later become known as Hydroponics.