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TIL In German bars/restaurants there are "Speibecken": These are basins into which you can throw up if you've had too much to drink.

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oBVPr TIL: In 1902, due to pressure from the butter industry, the U.S. government made it illegal to put yellow food coloring into margarine. This caused annual margarine consumption to drop from 54k tons to 22k tons due to the unappetizing stark white color of undyed margarine.
0w8nM TIL about Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp (Manzanar) to join his Japanese-American friends and neighbors. He was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American at Manzanar, where he lived for 2.5 years.
7rJW7 TIL that in 1985, Xi Jinping spent 2 weeks with a US family in Iowa in order to study US agriculture.
R7YM1 TIL of the "Battle of London Airport" in 1948, where the officers of the "Flying Squad" learnt of a plot to steal bullion from the airport by drugging the guards. In response they replaced the guards and pretended to be drugged, then awoke leading to a violent fight with all criminals being caught
vPwXL TIL legendary session bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.