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Docdon23 · M
I believe the bikini was invented in the early 1950s, and named after the island the US detonated a hydrogen bomb on, because that was a huge story in the news at the same time the (French, I believe) inventor of the bikini was looking for a name (it is an island, or atoll, in the pacific...)