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TIL High School boys had to swim in the nude in schools across America until 1970

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6DwY TIL “Cowabunga” was originally a nonsense word used by Chief Thundercloud on “The Howdy Doody Show” in the early ‘50s. It was then adopted for use by surfers and later on, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson.
5YdLr TIL Lucky from King of the Hill was voiced by Tom Petty and also was supposed to be a one-off character, but decided to voice the character as needed.
o8Vo TIL the “50% of US marriages end in divorce” statistic is misleading. In reality, divorce rates peaked in the early 1980s and have been steadily decreasing since then. If current trends continue, only a third of today’s marriages will end in a divorce.
5bPp TIL The people of Shitterton, UK, banded together to buy a big rock to put the name on. As people kept stealing the sign.
Kkjw TIL the hamlet of Shitterton in Dorset England had it’s town sign stolen so often, the inhabitants banded together to purchase a 1.5-ton block of stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet’s name.