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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.

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AEa TIL that J.K. Rowling seriously considered killing Ron Weasley mid-series
M7wAW TIL that Jupiter’s atmosphere is so dense and pressurized that a human falling into it would be crushed before ever reaching a solid surface — because it may not even have one.
awpeL TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she’d be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 30 million copies.
8abrK TIL that on Skylab, the American space station of the 1970s, only about 2.8 liters of water was used each time an astronaut took a shower.
l7QOA TIL that the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to extinction after being blamed for killing livestock - though its jaw was so weak it likely couldn’t kill more than a possum. It had tiger-like stripes and could open its jaws 80°. The last known thylacine died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.