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TIL that many High Schools required boys to swim nude until the 1960s. Girls swam clothed.

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P108V TIL of American mercenary William Walker. After failing to conquer parts of Mexico, he overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1856 and ruled as its president for nearly a year, receiving recognition from President Franklin Pierce. He was overthrown, and executed after preparing for another invasion.
P00g TIL: Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BCE to avoid “dangerous beard-grabbing in combat”, and because he believed it looked tidier.
pJGA TIL that in Jamaica sex between two men is punishable with up to 10 years of prison while sex between two women is legal.
8jJX TIL of Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project physicist who died horribly after his screwdriver slipped and accidentally caused a runaway nuclear reaction.
P1pBJ TIL about Marvin Heemeyer, a man who destroyed buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, CO, as an act of revenge against the people who wronged him