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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.

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G5dE TIL, on 9/11, the town of Garner, Newfoundland’s population swelled by 2/3’s due to 39 rerouted grounded planes. The town only has 550 hotel beds, so the population housed the stranded passengers in their own homes.
7rLLX TIL our calendar skipped 11 days in September of 1752.
P1g6L TIL that Napster is still around and relocating their global headquarters to Nashville… their annual revenue is $111.1M
P1nDZ TIL NASA engineers use Hawaiian lava fields to simulate conditions on Mars
NXmwM TIL about the Antikythera Mechanism, a Greek model of the Solar System which is the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.