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TIL that there are many types of bagpipes from all over the world.

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wRG1 TIL Afghan Women had the right to vote in 1920’s and full equality in 1960’s.
pYoRG TIL the Mississippi River was once five miles wide and whales swam up it from the Gulf of America. The remains of these whales have been found in Michigan.
9Y4E7 TIL Humans lived inland in North America 1,000 years before scientists suspected. Stone tools and other artifacts found in Idaho hint that the First Americans lived here 16,000 years ago — long before an overland path to the continent existed. It’s more evidence humans arrived via a coastal route.
J1Dg1 TIL Snow leopards are not actually a sub species of leopards. In fact, they are instead more related to tigers than any true leopard.
xVLpD TIL that the bikini was invented by the frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. At the time, the USA were conducting Atomic Bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, and so Louis Réard named his two piece swimsuit the “Bikini” as it was what he referred to as an “Anatomic Bomb”