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TIL that Disneyland had to close the “It’s a Small World” ride for several months in 2007 for renovations because people were too fat for the ride and the boats were regularly getting stuck

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4k8dR TIL that in the early days of crossword puzzles, the game became an object of cultural hysteria. Newspapers and magazines from the 1920's - 1930's warned of a “crossword craze” gripping the country’s minds. The trend was described as an “epidemic,” a “virulent plague,” and a “national menace.”
0nJL TIL that lemonade, as known in North America, is rare in the rest of the world. Ask for a lemonade in Australia, and you’re likely to get something akin to Sprite.
9GPX TIL that in 1949 at Wimbledon, “Gorgeous Gussie” Moran wore a skirt that exposed her knees, causing Wimbledon officials to complain that she was “bringing vulgarity and sin into tennis.”
BgyWx TIL the first President of the U.S. to die in office, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), still hasn't yet been assigned a definitive, proven cause of death by medical science; only likely ones
neoP9 TIL When London Underground’s first escalators were installed in 1911 a one-legged man – William ‘Bumper’ Harris-was employed to ride the escalators and demonstrate to a sceptical public the safety of the new machines. Ironically he had lost his leg in an earlier underground accident.