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TIL a former slave ship captain wrote the song “Amazing Grace.”

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OlG1 TIL In 1838, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel about a shipwreck where three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, there was a real shipwreck, in which three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
wDGP TIL People who take vitamin B6 dream more vividly.
wL9QP TIL: Earning a median US income makes you richer than 97.7% of people on earth (even after adjusting for purchasing power)
X0glD TIL a group from California that represents plum farmers and distributors promoted the use of prune puree on school lunch beef patties following declining prune sales in the mid 90s. This lead to a short lived period of schools incorporating fruit fused burgers into their students diet.
pnN TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s only full length novel featured a scene in which a cabin boy named Richard Parker is cannibalized by his shipwrecked crew mates. 46 years later, a real ship wrecked crew actually did cannibalize their cabin boy…who was also named Richard Parker.