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TIL: The name "spandex" is an anagram of the word "expands"

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x9ak TIL that there is a place in America called The Heart Attack Grill. After you order your ‘Triple Bypass Burger’, they dress you in a hospital gown and wheel you to your seat in a wheel chair. If you don’t finish your meal you get paddled by hot nurses. Customers +160kg eat for free.
8eLYV 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.
Wk5eN TIL in 1985, sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame's media section, along with Tim Moriarty and Dick Johnson, however Lespérance was not invited to his induction ceremony as the Hall of Fame was misinformed that he had died. Lespérance was invited the next year.
ANlBd TIL On May 1901, Connecticut became the first state to pass speed limit laws, regulating motor vehicles to 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph on country roads.
x61Eb TIL that the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer was so unstable, it was virtually uncontrollable by anybody besides the brothers, who had trained on their 1902 glider.