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TIL For more than 50 years last century, Chicago Public High Schools required boys to swim naked.

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wLvGW TIL In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter debated, marking the first time in US history that a president had agreed to debate and only the second time that any televised debates had been held. The sound system failed, leaving Ford and Carter standing in silence for nearly half an hour
Y7eA7 TIL After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage increased by 300% in the United States.
9wpG7 TIL Thomas Edison controlled most of the film industry in New Jersey which annoyed smaller independent producers and filmmakers. They retaliated by moving their independent films to Hollywood, and eventually became Universal, Paramount and 20th-century Fox.
w9K8 TIL that internet is really scarce in Cuba and people gather at designated public places to access it
XEnxQ TIL important matters in ancient Persia were decided drunk and then again once sober.