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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.

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m1xAO TIL Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
XEbeQ TIL, Bangladesh has six seasons: Grisma (summer), Barsa (rainy), Sarat (autumn), Hemanta (late autumn), Shhit (winter) and Basanta (spring).
nWJ19 TIL P.T. Barnum showed off a “161”-year-old woman. After her death in 1836, an autopsy was performed and it concluded that her body was not >80 years old, aligning more closely with persons in their 70s than those >100 years
N5V8 TIL that there is recorded evidence of a ‘clapping noise’ produced by the northern lights, proving folktales of the phenomenon true.
pexZ TIL that in 2010, two women planning to blow themselves up on New Years Eve in Russia’s Red Square were foiled by a spam text message which blew one of them up early.