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Louis Louis Réard a.k.a the inventor of the modern bikini declared that it wasn’t a real bikini unless it could be “pulled through a wedding ring” and after its modern debut was banned in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Australia, and declared a sin by the Vatican.

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GYxPN TIL Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviours due to boredom, overcrowding, lack of ventilation, and poor nutrition.
grrVD TIL about the "Ancient Spanish Monastery" in Miami, a monastery built in 1141 AD in Europe, imported piece-by-piece into the U.S. in 1925 by media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, making it the oldest European building in the Western Hemisphere.
1y94 TIL that Sylvester Stallone sold his dog for $25 to make ends meet before hitting it big with Rocky, then bought it back for $15,000.
LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
XEgRQ The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.