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Today I learned that most indoor swimming pools in the US in the first half of the 20th century required males to swim naked.

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D16EJ TIL of Jerome Motto, who was an American psychiatrist and conducted the first suicide prevention intervention that reduced deaths by suicide.
9Y5kX TIL Betsy Ross almost certainly didn't make the first American flag. In fact she wasn't credited with making the flag until almost 100 years after the revolution.
EgoEw TIL about Lotus Isle. Once called Oregon's most surreal amusement park, a number of unfortunate happenings led to the park’s early downfall. An 11-year old boy drowned just before the opening season ended in 1930 and the next day, the President, Edwin Platt, committed suicide. More in the comments.
9wYom TIL Praying Mantis’ have never been an endangered species, and it has always been legal to kill them in the United States. The contrary claim was just an urban legend floating around since the 1950’s.
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