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TIL that 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water

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1rZr TIL Ivan the Terrible was so impressed with the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral that he had the architect blinded so that he could never design anything as beautiful again.
64ym TIL Brian May started writing his PhD thesis on the Zodiacal dust cloud in 1971 before beginning his musical career as the guitarist for Queen. He finished the thesis 36 years later, in 2007.
d8d9d TIL that Charlie Chaplin's first speaking role was the last 5 minutes of The Great Dictator, a parody film about Hitler. It was banned in Germany and its supporting countries during WWll.
dPNZ TIL one of the first things people would see entering ancient Milan from the East was a bas-relief of a woman shaving her pubes.
LknGd Til A man was stabbed in Disney land, and Disney land didn’t call the medical assistance because it would “ruin the magic”.