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TIL that there is a place in America called The Heart Attack Grill. After you order your ‘Triple Bypass Burger’, they dress you in a hospital gown and wheel you to your seat in a wheel chair. If you don’t finish your meal you get paddled by hot nurses. Customers +160kg eat for free.

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