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TIL that the spandex name was chosen as an anagram of “expands”

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JY9lm TIL That in London, on Monday 17th of October 1814, over 320,000 gallons of beer gushed out of the factory after several tanks broke. The beer claimed at least 8 people's lives, and countless others would have been iniured.
x6PBw TIL: the population of mountain gorillas currently is a little less than 1000.
Oodog TIL Ore-Ida invented tater tots to make use of the leftover potato shavings from their French fries production.
4XvQg TIL that many small towns finance their governments by issuing traffic tickets. In hundreds of US counties fines are used to fund 10-20% of the local government budget.
w501 TIL that in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick insisted on the table in the warroom to be covered in green felt, so it looked like the leaders were playing cards for the fate of the world. It makes little sense as the entire movie was shot in black and white.