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TIL black people are less likely to know how to swim due, in part, to historic bans on black people swimming in public pools. In 1964, a motel manager poured acid in the pool to scare away black swimmers who were staging a "swim in."

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N55N TIL there is a statue of a dragon in Poland that breathes actual fire on demand, when a text message is received.
Bv1e TIL that actor Andre Royo who played drug addict Bubbles on The Wire was given a small package of heroin by a Baltimore resident with the man saying “Man, you need a fix more than I do.”. Royo has called this his “street Oscar”.
JB84 TIL that at the end of WWII, the Canadian Navy was the 3rd largest Navy in the world
Meo58 TIL Sylvester Stallone taught John Travolta how to be fit in 1983, Stallone in later years began to refer actors who want to gain weight to dinner at his old friends home to help them fatten up
4X9yw TIL that almost half of the young adults in New Jersey live with their parents