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TIL the 1913 Tour de France rules forbade outside assistance when riders’ bicycles broke.At one point,the race leader’s front fork broke and he trekked 10km to a forge where he repaired it himself,as he happened to also be a skilled mechanic.He was penalized 10 min because a child worked the bellows

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rP5d TIL that when Darryl McDaniels (DMC of RUN DMC) was suicidal, the only thing keeping him from killing himself was Sarah McLachlan’s album “Angel.” He met her at a party, told her what her album meant to him, and said, “Your album is called ‘Angel.’ You sing like an angel. But to me, you are God.”
R5wja TIL Trois Pistoles, Quebec, a town of 3000 has been a popular place for anglophones to learn French since 1932. In recent years the number of hosts have declined, as they were only paid $12-15 per day for room and $10 -$15 to feed a student each day
GYPJg TIL Luftwaffe pilot Paul Ratz was flying his fw190 fighter near St. Petersburg during ww2 and was shot down. His plane was found years later in a forest and has been restored to flying order since.
nWk6Y TIL that the inventor of Fettuccine Alfredo, Alfredo Di Lelio, invented the famous pasta in 1908 primarily as a way to get his wife to eat, as she had recently given birth to their first child and thus did not have much of an appetite.
l7Zj7 TIL that the biggest box office hit of 1987 was a Leonard Nimoy movie - not as Spock in a Star Trek film but as the director of Three Men and a Baby.