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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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R7Mn6 It might look pretty but Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could literally tear the skin from bone.
R54jQ TIL that when Hamlet talks about knowing “a hawk from a handsaw,” he wasn’t referring to the tool but a bird (handsaw was originally “heronshaw,” an old form of “heron.”)
6RYX TIL a Sweedish study concluded that the United States was one of the most racially tolerant countries in the world.
69d1Z TIL that asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral which has to be mined, and that millions of tons of it are still being mined today.
8DKb TIL A cave in France contains the footprints of a young child alongside the paw prints of a dog, left 26,000 years ago. The oldest evidence of human canine relationships ever found