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TIL that all undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology must pass a swimming test before they can graduate.

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gog9 TIL that Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin liked Monty Python so much they helped fund the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
V8RD TIL In 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2 separate occasions it was discovered that women had been buried alive, after people at the cemetery heard screams coming from inside the earth.