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TIL That the worlds biggest helicopter can carry a plane

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yQdBa TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was a genius who had no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. But his notebooks were 7,200 pages crammed with notes and scribbles including math calculations, sketches of animals, weapons of war, and studies for paintings
rNQl4 TIL of an isolated village called Dali Koumbe (also known as Dali Gimba) in Mauritania, West Africa where the majority of people have been born blind for the past 10 generations. It is thought to be congenital, though some locals attribute it to an old prophesy that foretold of a blind baby's birth.
0wVvN TIL in 1869, George Hull hired people to make a stone statue of a man, bury it, then later pretend to discover an ancient giant. The hoax was so lucrative that P.T. Barnum offered $50,000. The owner declined. Barnum had a replica made and said he had the real giant and the owner had the fake.
loeB1 TIL that chickens have a recessive gene which allows them to make teeth like their ancestors.
N71YN TIL when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, they had about 15 seconds of fuel left.