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Fashion designer Mary Quant is credited for inventing the miniskirt. She named it "Mini" after her favorite car the Mini Cooper.

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The day Saturday is named after the planet Saturn, which in turn was named after the Roman god of agriculture, Saturn.

The planet Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest planet in the night sky and the only planet to be named after a female.

The footwear company Nike was named after Nike the Greek goddess of victory.

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The planet Saturn has 62 moons. One of it's moons named Titan is the only one in our solar system known to have an atmosphere.

The planet Saturn has 62 moons. One of it's moons named Titan is the only one in our solar system known to have an atmosphere.

The state flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year old boy named Benny Benson. His design was one of 700 submitted in a contest for the best flag.

The only museum dedicated to potato fries is the Friet museum in the city of Bruges, Belgium. Legend has it that Belgian fishermen used to eat small fried fish and in the winter and they cut potatoes in the shape of small fish to fry them.

The Bibhorr formula is a new mathematical formula to calculate the angles of a right angle triangle without using Sine and Cosine functions. Once the length of all sides are known, the numbers are simply plugged into the formula which results in the angle that is opposite to the middle sized side. The formula is: 90*(Longest Side + Medium Side - Shortest Side)^2 / (Medium Side)^2 + 1.5*(Longest Side)*(Longest Side + Medium Side - Shortest Side)

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