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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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OoELX TIL that the 1998 science fiction film "Soldier" starring Kurt Russell was meant to share a universe with "Blade Runner" and has oblique references to it and stories by Philip K. Dick.
4X7Qo TIL about Fr. James Coyle, a Catholic Priest in Alabama who was murdered in 1921 for celebrating a secret interracial marriage.
M7g80 TIL that author J.K. Rowling often relied on the fan-made Harry Potter Lexicon while writing the 'Harry Potter' books: "I have been known to sneak into an Internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of 'Harry Potter', which is embarrassing."
ov6A TIL there is an Australian band called “The Beards”. Every single one of their 38 songs is about beards.
l71wK TIL: In 1982 Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em was released on Atari. Players control two nude women; the goal is to catch semen in their mouths, which is falling from a masturbating man on a rooftop, without missing.