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TIL in Ancient Roman had a rather revealing "bikinis" that are very similar to the ones we use nowadays.

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xWDw TIL that H.R. Giger refused to give the xenomorphs from Alien eyes because “It’s scarier if you don’t know where they’re looking”.
JYZdv TIL the first elected female Member of Parliament in UK was Constance Markievicz. Elected in 1918 as a member of Sinn Féin, she didn't take up her seat in opposition to British policy and treatment of the Irish.
grvN8 TIL that when the Salton Sea was formed, it nearly destroyed the cities of Mexicala (now Mexicali) and Calexico by creating a waterfall that moved through them.
mxMZP TIL that the Constitutional Apportionment Amendment, which was the first article of what would eventually become the Bill of Rights, had a matematical error in it that would have made it impossible to enforce. Despite the error, the amendment came a state away from passing on two separate occasions.