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TIL that Leonardo DaVinci used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.

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9g6D TIL expectant mothers who eat licorice candy can unknowingly lower the IQs of their unborn children. The candy has been linked to lower IQs and behavioral problems in the children of mothers who ate it in large amounts. (100g a week)
8aVJZ TIL the Wright Brothers were notorious patent trolls who tried to ruin everyone who tried to innovate with flight. Also see American Innovations.
4XOmo Researchers have created a llama-inspired mega protein capable of neutralizing 59 different strains of influenza.
4XXLR TIL that two of the longest wars ever fought in history (Reconquista and Iranian-Roman Wars), each took more than 700 years
BrMrr TIL An acre was historically the amount of land tillable by one man behind one ox in one day. Poor farming technologies and the need for farmland to be close to the river means that acres were traditionally long and narrow.