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TIL the food known as Hush Puppies were named so because during civil war era, escaping slaves would feed these to the tracking dogs tasked to hunt them down. Slaves would feed the dogs while urging them to 'hush puppy'

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rRLRd TIL that Bangladesh, despite being the 8th most populous country in the world (ahead of Russia, Mexico, and Japan), is smaller than Oman, New Zealand, or Uruguay, and is by far the most densely populated country that isn't a city-state
Pkpe TIL of the Persian social custom of Taarof, where every business owner is obliged to refuse payment, and every customer is obliged to insist on paying anyway, sometimes going back and forth up to 3 times
9wx5r TIL "Seven Nation Army" became a global sports anthem after a Belgian soccer team's fans heard it in a bar before a big game, sang it while they won, and adopted it as their unofficial team anthem; it spread to other European teams and came back to the US as a Penn State football anthem.
4Xgmg TIL that at any given time in Kentucky, there are more barrels of bourbon aging (~5.3 million) than there are people (~4.5 million).
LQgJd TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.