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TIL Students at Columbia College are required to pass a swimming test before receiving their diploma, in addition to its rigorous Core Curriculum

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0wmOL TIL: manatees are very social animals, to the point where it is quite common for them to come up to divers and swimmers for a quick belly rub!!!
dJr8 TIL Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Neil Armstrong (+ many others) were all Deists. They believed God did not interfere or effect events on Earth - a view seen as herecy throughout most of their lives.
0dNEy TIL: There is something called 'The Glitter Conspiracy'. One of the largest producers of glitter doens't want to tell what tge glitter is used for. Theories range from the use in explosives to boats
dWNE TIL that when we landed on the moon we placed reflectors that can reflect any laser pointed at it back to the earth, which smashes the conspiracy that we never went.
EAmV TIL of the 1833 Leonids meteor shower, the largest one ever recorded estimated at 240 000 “shooting stars” per hour (~67 every second) radiating from Leo constellation over a 9 hour period. The event had such an impact on society that it was used to date people with no birth certificate.