Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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Pope Francis was once a nightclub bouncer.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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