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TIL that 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water

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VMvpm TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory did not have its origin in a Ray Bradbury short story
p8D6Z TIL that in 1995 in Cambodia, a same-sex marriage was legally recognized by the Cambodian government despite same-sex marriage being constitutionally banned.
JYk0Q TIL that the average worker bee forages only about 4-5 days before dying. They take multiple foraging trips per day and usually die after flying around 500 total miles.
nenxB TIL Obscurantism is the practice of deliberately presenting information in an imprecise and recondite manner, often designed to forestall further inquiry and understanding.
8eEGX [TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.