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TIL that 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water
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TIL that the reason we think of Neanderthals as hunched over and primitive is because one of the first skeletons we found was 40 years old and had arthritis
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TIL locusts are just angry, swarming, grasshoppers that have been agitated enough that they transform
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TIL The Queen of England still has a Champion. The title is currently held by a 64 year old accountant.
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TIL of Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian who rose through the ranks of the Ottoman army to become viceroy of Egypt. While viceroy, he destroyed the first Saudi state, conquered Sudan, and launched a rebellion which almost overthrew the Sultan, before being halted by European intervention.
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TIL the Japanese maglev bullet train, Shinkansen, sports a sterling record of zero fatalities over its 50 years of operations