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a8dyM TIL: Leonardo da Vinci designed scuba gear for sneak attacks on enemy ships from underwater. The leather suit was equipped with a bag-like mask that went over the diver’s head. Attached to the mask around the nose area were two cane tubes that led up to a cork diving bell floating on the surface.
6E4El TIL Stalin was hit by a horse-drawn carriage twice as a child, which led to permanent damage of his left arm. This injury exempted him from fighting in WW I where he would have likely died. -
Bg7Rk TIL that the largest mall in the world is in Iran and it’s 21 million square feet
78R6O TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
9YAom TIL Ray J continues to make $90,000 every 3 months from his sex tape with Kim Kardashian. It is the biggest selling sex tape ever, a title that was previously held by Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape.