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TIL modern bikini (clothing) was named after US nuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll in 1946

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gr1m8 TIL humans have smaller jaws and bigger brains than our primate forebears because of a mutation in the MYH16 gene. The jaw muscles are made smaller and weaker as a result of the gene mutation, which lessens the force applied to the skull, which can expand, letting the brain grow bigger.
Y6xr TIL that molten tungsten is so hot, that if you dropped it into lava, the lava would freeze the tungsten…
epjN6 TIL about the Dionne quintuplets, the first know quintuplets to survive their infancy. At age 5, the Canadian government made them wards of the Crown. During this time they became a profitable tourist attraction. As adults, they sued the Canadian govt for exploitation, eventually settling for $4m.
NXkkM TIL about Joseph Jumonville, a French officer in the French and Indian War who was killed by George Washington’s forces in 1754. Jumonville’s younger brother vowed revenge on Washington, and successfully made Washington surrender at Fort Necessity only five weeks later.
Lkjr0 TIL there are still people alive today who had a grandparent born in the 1700s