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Swallowing Live Goldfish Was a 1930s College Fad
In the late 1930s, American college campuses witnessed a bizarre trend that swept the nation: goldfish swallowing. This peculiar fad originated in 1939 when Lothrop Withington Jr., a freshman at Harvard University, gulped down a live goldfish to win a $10 bet as part of his campaign for class president. Little did he know that…