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TIL of the phrase "I say it's spinach", an idiom meaning "it's nonsense/rubbish" originating from a 1928 New Yorker cartoon captioned "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it"

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JYmQ TIL that MIT students have a history of some of the most awesome pranks that have ever been pulled, including hacking the lighting system of one building on campus and rigging it so that they could play Tetris using the windows as tiles.
GY9X1 TIL After an MIT student discovered a security flaw in Bostons subway fare collection system. Instead of fixing the problem the city sued the student and newspapers who reported it, then tried to have a Judge hold the student in contempt of court if he publicly spoke about the security flaw.
neydB TIL Back in 1965 a Senate subcommittee predicted that we'd enjoy 2-hour work weeks by the year 2000. However, In 1991, the average American worker put in 163 more hours on the job than in 1973, according to the sociologist Juliet Schor, the author of “The Overworked American.”
OoNyR TIL under California law, you could go to jail for squealing your tires. According to Vehicle Code 23109(c), “exhibition of speed” is a crime.
78p9x TIL Rod Serling originally wrote an episode about Emmett Till but it was rejected and so he turned to science fiction, instead, to talk about social issues, creating The Twilight Zone.