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Is it true that until the last few centuries people couldn't
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Is it true that until the last few centuries people couldn't swim?
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>>1302496
there are people in african cave paintings swimming that are about 5-10k years old in what is now the sahara.

black folks been swimming for awhile.
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>>1302496
The Gemara in Brachot has a rabbinical argument whether or not teaching your kids to swim is part of the minimum requirement of parental care owed to offspring.

I'm guessing no.
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No.
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>>1303371
Looks more like monkeys drowning.

Not even trying to be racist.
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It just didn't make sense to reach sailors when you didn't have to means to save them. Cruelty for kindness.
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>>1303395
Not him, but not it doesn't.
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