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TIL Michael Phelps no longer holds any current individual world record. An end of an era.

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REpj TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, only to return in 1962. 18 months later he would assassinate John F. Kennedy.
0D1L TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”
xoNg TIL Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple, sold his 10% stake of the company in 1976 for $800. Had he kept his stock, it would have been worth over $58,000,000,000 today.
x6Nd1 TIL Veronica Lake was six months pregnant at the beginning of production Sullivan's Travels (1941), a fact she did not disclose to director Preston Sturges until filming began. Costume designer Edith Head was tasked to find ways of concealing Lake's pregnancy.
LQEDv TIL of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City dance club personalities that became popular in the late 80s and early 90s and were characterized by hedonism and eccentric costumes. The movement declined in 1994 after its founding member Michael Alig killed and dismembered a fellow member.