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Today I learned that during the COVID-19 pandemic, an Italian fashion designer invented a three-piece bathing suit called a "trikini", which was just a regular bikini with a matching face mask.

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pyNO TIL that a US Army Special Forces officer killed in 2006, unmarried, with financially independent family, had willed his Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance policy benefits to the men of his unit, so that they could throw a party in his honor in Vegas should he be killed in action.
N7GRN TIL "Baseball is so popular in Japan that many new Japanese fans are surprised to learn that Americans also consider it their 'national sport'"
XExRE TIL about Matilda Joslyn Gage, an abolitionist, suffragist and theosophist who wrote a book called “Women, Church and State.” She was also “The Wizard of Oz” author L Frank Baum’s mother in law, and it is suggested she inspired his “good witches.”
awREb TIL after Universidad del Mar was closed by Chilean government due to major financial irregularities, artist Papas Fritas managed to enter its vault and burn tuition contracts amounting to $500 million, making difficult to prove students owed the university this money
058j TIL that 70 years ago, the Army hired 6 women mathematicians for a secret project and they became the worlds first computer programmers.