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TIL The Centers for Disease Control said that 37% of American adults can’t swim 24 yards, which is the length of a typical recreation-center swimming pool.

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D1GDv TIL about the Bal des Ardents, or the Ball of the Burning Men, a masquerade ball in France in 1393. During the ball, four dancers burned alive when a spectator accidentally brought a torch and set their costumes on fire.
epRRg TIL about the Hiller Flying Platform, a 1950s hoverboard.
VM7Kk TIL In 1794, the world's tallest structure, the Strasbourg Cathedral spire, was saved by a hat. Revolutionaries wanted to tear down the spire, as it stood against equality. The citizens of Strasbourg crowned it with a giant tin Phrygian cap, a symbol of liberty commonly worn by revolutionaries.
jJeX TIL Denmark & Norway were a single country between 1524 - 1814 and Sweden and Norway were a single country between 1814 - 1905
NM0E TIL Pablo Escobar had more illegal money than they could deposit in the banks, storing it in warehouses he annually wrote off 10% as ‘spoilage’ when rats crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills