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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci invented the concept of a CVT transmission

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PjOL TIL the death metal growl has origins in Viking culture
EgV1V TIL a Roman emperor died by being struck by lightning
ZpRDo TIL The 2001 film The Cat’s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, dramatizes the scandalous 1924 death of film mogul Thomas Ince on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. With Charlie Chaplin allegedly flirting with Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, many believe Hearst meant to shoot Chaplin—but hit Ince instead.
Z8evY TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.
Wkxyd TIL: In 2010 Carlsberg staff striked over a company decision to limit beer drinking at work to lunch breaks.