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TIL the Bikini (swimsuit) was named after the Bikini Atoll (atom bomb test site) and not the other way around

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J1Laj TIL That Ancient Romans Used Urine for Teeth Whitening and Laundry
oB1or TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.
mxOGo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most politically active women of the 20th Century. She campaigned civil rights in the early 1930’s, regularly spoke on behalf of her husband and pressed the US to join the United Nations. She eventually remodeled the meaning of ‘First Lady’.
NXdN6 TIL about Chris Lemons, a saturation diver that survived 35 minutes without oxygen at almost 300 feet below the North Sea.
590n TIL: The total length of all coastlines in Canada is roughly equivalent to five laps around planet Earth.