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TIL that the test to measure the maneuverability in automobiles is called the elk test because it measure how successfully a vehicle handles avoiding large unexpected animals on Scandinavians roads.

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78GWp TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.
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