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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.
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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.
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TIL our calendar skipped 11 days in September of 1752.
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TIL that Napster is still around and relocating their global headquarters to Nashville… their annual revenue is $111.1M
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TIL NASA engineers use Hawaiian lava fields to simulate conditions on Mars
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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.