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TIL goldfish were originally silver but were bred until they became yellow by the Song Dynasty imperial family because they really liked yellow

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nW4eP TIL Escaping slaves use to throw balls of fried cornmeal out to distract plantation hounds from tracking them. The hounds stopped barking and tracking thanks to the cornmeal which later adopted the name “hush puppies”.
Bdad TIL that in 1000, Spain had over 5,000,000 Muslims. By 1614, every Muslim was either forced to convert, leave, or be killed by Catholic monarchs.
b6DXa TIL gangster Meyer Lansky and his associates including Lucky Luciano used their power to break up American Bund rallies
6jAm TIL: in march 1989 an asteroid passed through the exact position where Earth was only six hours earlier.
69R58 TIL that the 1947 version of the Christmas film ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ was released in late Spring because the studio head argued that more people went to the movies in warmer weather, so the film was promoted without any references to Santa or Christmas.