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TIL that MIT students must pass a swim test to graduate. The director of phys ed said swimming is “…a self-survival skill. Research shows that most drownings occur in families where parents don’t know how to swim.”

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4Mb6 TIL that Shawn Fanning of Napster fame wore a Metallica t-shirt to an MTV Awards show in which Ulrich Lars was in attendance. When he was asked where he got it he said “a friend shared it with him.”
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