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TIL In 1964, Sports Illustrated debuted its first Swimsuit Issue. Babette March's white bikini caused a sensation. Sports Illustrated readers wrote in to the magazine with date offers and marriage proposals to the model

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lom71 TIL Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid, was not considered a Sci-Fi writer however, he predicted the invention of both the machine gun & the Air Force in his book 'The Wicked Prince' written in 1840.
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