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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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Bg1Jk TIL Many things were named after President Hoover during the Great Depression. There were the shanty towns named 'Hoovervilles', an empty out turned pocket was a "Hoover flag", worn out shoes were patched with cardboard known as "Hoover leather", and a horse drawn automobile was a 'Hoover wagon'.
pY5Y4 TIL that sometimes skinned ginger root is inserted in the anus as part of a caning punishment. The subject must choose between bracing for the strike (increased burning sensation) or relaxing the buttocks (taking the full force of the blow).
XEMDD TIL that 350 years ago, Robert Boyle wrote down a ‘to-do list’ of fantastical things he hoped science would one day acomplish. We’re over half way there.
yWyJ TIL Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, during his trial when accused of murdering three and a half million people, replied, “No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation.”
OKe TIL Apple set aside a record-shattering $378 million for its CEO Tim Cook last year. That’s over $1,000,000 a day, or nearly 60,000 times the salary of the people who make the products that make Tim Cook rich.