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TIL that "topless swimsuits" are monokinis and were designed in 1962 by Austrian Rudi Gernreich, who predicted that "bosoms will be uncovered within five years"

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Bgrak TIL that Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, home of the Grand National, has a motor racing circuit inside it which has hosted the F1 British Grand Prix five times
69R1W TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.
E1ewd TIL the USS John C. Stennis was named after someone who supported racial segregation and signed the Southern Manifesto.
7ryYb TIL that knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem was widespead in Old Babylonia(Iraq today) 1900 years BC, more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.
b9ELZ TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French