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TIL Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Studies Were Completely Illegal

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918p TIL: Raccoons lead a coordinated attack on the TeV particle accelerator in Illinois.
WOwY TIL the most dangerous category of the Guinness Book of Records is the Banzai Skydive - a diver throws his parachute at 10,000 ft and attempts to secure it.
W7EAA TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.
wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
vQ4K TIL that there is a Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold called Kintsugi. The style embraces the flaws and imperfections of the artifact as well as highlights them.