Sometimes it’s the things we least expect that can be the most interesting.
Like the fact that there were still woolly mammoths living on Earth at the same time as the Egyptians were building the pyramids at Giza, or how the same person that painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, also devised prototypes of the helicopter and parachutes - Leonardo da Vinci.
If you pay close attention to the world around you, you can spot some connections in the most surprising places.
Can you find the commonalities between these seemingly unconnected things?
This article was published in January 2023.
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