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TIL Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” video helped find 26 missing children.

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kJp6E TIL that in the 19th century, there was a common prejuidice towards the german immigrant population that they were eating dogs. That is how, when the frankfurter sausage was introduced, there were rumors circulating that there was dog meat in it, so it earned the nickname "Hot dog".
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