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TIL that the insult ‘hoser’ is from the days before the Zamboni - and the losing team had to hose down the ice to smooth it out.

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epxo4 TIL Mountain Dew was originally created as a moonshine mixer. The soda received its name for the slang used for "mountain-brewed" moonshine: Mountain Dew
QYRk TIL in 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major-label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format
4XXPR TIL Shia Labeouf's Big Apology For Plagiarizing His Apologies Was Plagiarized
PYjWe TIL the drink Ribena comes from the botanical name for the blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.