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TIL New Guinea (island) is over three times larger than Great Britain (both as an island and as a country)

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xVLpD TIL that the bikini was invented by the frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. At the time, the USA were conducting Atomic Bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, and so Louis Réard named his two piece swimsuit the “Bikini” as it was what he referred to as an “Anatomic Bomb”
9YL17 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci invented a self-propelled cart (powered by two coiled springs and a balance wheel, like a watch) that could drive and even steer autonomously.
OoBXa TIL Teddy Roosevelt's Son Died Flying for the US During WWI. When His Body Was Discovered Behind Enemy Lines, the Germans Gave Him A Full Military Burial With Honors.
l7195 TIL that the largest far-right ultra-nationalist organization in Germany is the Turkish Grey Wolves.
yQkOM TIL that in a creative writing assignment titled "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses", a student at a local High School predicted the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse on November 6, 1940. The bridge collapsed November 7, 1940.