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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.

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vjZD TIL in the 50’s and 60’s Chester M. Southam injected hundreds of innocent women and prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary with live cancer cells “knowing at the time it might very well cause cancer”, He went onto be the VP of the American Cancer Society.
kOEb1 TIL: Friday 13th Superstition has its origins in a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla. The uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous god Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow
R5oA6 TIL even though Wolf of Wall Street was censored and screened less than 10 theaters in Singapore, it became no.1 film in opening weekend.
jN9RX TIL The British built a thousand mile, 12 foot high, 14 foot across hedge through India, no one is totally clear why.
JBl8 TIL there is a company, named Maximum Performance, that creates fake poop for testing new toilet designs. Pic at the link.