• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Back then everybody swam naked in the Potomac. Ben Franklin is another one with written records about it.

    If you see the Potomac River today, you’d wonder what the hell happened, it is absolutely filthy and not even a rat would swim in it. well maybe a rat would drown & die in it.