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TIL that Denim and Jeans come from the phrases "De Nîmes" (from [the French city of] Nîmes) and "Gênes" ([the French name for] Genoa). Jeans exist perhaps from the late middle ages; all Davis and Strauss did was add rivets.

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PY7QL TIL of John William Godward, an English painter who committed suicide at the age of 61 and left a note stating: "the world is not big enough for [both] myself and a Picasso”. Godward was a neo-classic painter; his style of painting had declined with the rise of modern art.
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