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y8PJ TIL: Interest in the United States was limited to 6% in the original 13 States. Beyond that it was considered usury, which was illegal.
Yg0W TIL an autistic seven year old’s first word was “Fonzi” when Henry Winkler tried to sit in a theater seat in front of her. The girl’s mother fainted from the shock.
X0pjD TIL of the band band Too Much Joy, who were sued by Bozo the Clown for sampling him in a song, arrested on obscenity charges for covering 2 Live Crew in Florida, and had their frontman detained by the secret service after a joke he made at a concert
nWDNb TIL of Ford Think, a "neighborhood electric vehicle" that Ford sold in the early 2000s, that were prone to an instrument cluster failure which would also brick the entire vehicle.
OkPR TIL The nut that holds a helicopter’s main rotor in place is called the “Jesus nut”. The nut got its name because if it failed during the flight, the only thing left for the crew to do would be to “pray to Jesus”.