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TIL America had drive in photo development booths

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m7YE TIL: the bikini swimsuit was named after the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. The inventor wanted to imply the bikini was as momentous an invention as the new bomb. This was a time when beautiful women were “bombshells” and anything cool was “atomic.”
xVXpk TIL the bird, the Common Swift, can stay in the air for up to 10 months without landing. They can even sleep and mate while flying.
D1Jrp TIL the largest sum paid for a painting by Giovanni Boldini (€2.1 million) was for one found in an unoccupied and decadent Paris apartment frozen in time since 1942. The painting of his mistress had sat unseen for 68 years after her family fled the Nazi's to never return (rent paid til their death).
vv8r TIL that Christine Ha is the one and only blind competitor in the history of reality TV cooking shows. She won Masterchef.
kOVwB TIL fear of the unknown is the driving force behind many anxiety disorders