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TIL that more modest two-piece swim suits were popular in the US before the government ordered a 10% reduction in fabric used in woman's swimwear in 1943 as wartime rationing.

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MeNo8 TIL African wild dogs vote on pack decisions, like when to hunt, by sneezing. They do this after making a camp for greeting ceremonies called “social rallies”.
d8GoQ TIL that between 1968 and 2000, directors would use the pseudonym Alan Smithee to discredit themselves on projects they were dissatisfied with
RNJl TIL Pluto is no longer a planet because just 424 experts out of 10k+ decided it wasn’t
X0vDj TIL about the "Judas Wolf technique". This involves capturing a wolf in a net and putting a radio collar on it to lead government-contracted shooters back to its pack so they can be killed.
6EDal TIL the Rosetta Stone was not meant as a way to translate hieroglyphics, it was a government document containing three languages (Hieroglyphics, Greek and Demotic) so that all the people of Egypt at the time could read it