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TIL the first Pizza was probably served without Tomato/Tomato Sauce - it was not until the Spanish brought fresh tomatoes from the Americas that Modern Pizzas (with the familiar toppings) were invented.

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oBE5L TIL: Figure Skating got its name from skaters' abilities to trace patterns on the ice to be judged for motor control and accuracy. The rise of broadcasting the sport made the art difficult to follow on TV, so tracing was dropped in 1991, and younger athletes began winning based on difficult leaping.
MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.
YpWad TIL: From 1926 until 1962 the American Public Health Association recommended that indoor swimming pools used by men adopt nude bathing policies and that indoor swimming pools used by women require swimsuits "of the simplest type"
x6lwD TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video
JYpAV TIL about the Banach–Tarski Paradox where mathematically it is possible to split an object in to multiple parts and recombine them into two exact copies of the original without adding new material.