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TIL that one of the attractions at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was a colony of topless sunbathing women.

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W7e98 TIL that East India company still exist today—it is now owned by Sanjiv Mehta, a businessman from India.
jN8yn TIL King George V was euthanized/killed when injected with fatal doses of morphine and cocaine in his deathbed, so that the announcement was ''in the morning papers rather than the less appropriate evening journals.''
VBVmk TIL that at age 8, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured by the Comanche tribe and adopted into their way of life, ultimately having 3 children with a chief, before being recaptured at age 33. She never fully reassimilated, having escaped once before being returned again.
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.
8oJP TIL during the Vietnam War over 800 murders or attempted murders of superior officers by enlisted soldiers were investigated. The term ‘fragging’ was coined due to the popular use of fragmentation grenades to commit the murders.