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TIL men had to swim nude in all grades of public school gym class up until the early 1970s.

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dDakE TIL about the "Small Penis Rule" used in writing. It can be used to help authors evade libel lawsuits by giving characters based on real-life people a small penis.
NXE5E TIL that the Freedom Bell is a 2:1 scale replica of the Liberty Bell that was cast in The Netherlands. It was a bicentennial gift from the American Legion to the nation’s youth and sat in storage for several years before being installed at Union Station in 1981.
pYR4Z TIL that Vermont not only wasn’t one of the original 13 colonies, but that it was its own country for a few years.
Wk8W8 TIL: The north american division of the Dutch Rabobank paid $360M in fines and pleads guilty to laundering money for mexican cartels.
KYEYJ TIL: In Hollywood there is a person on set known as the Intimacy coordinator, whose job is to choreograph intimate scenes and ensure safety to actors while filming such scenes