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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”.

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L0Wd TIL the two men who penned the song ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never previously been to a baseball game.
e00lb TIL Prince was to be in a Simpsons episode -when he sent his notes on the script, they didn’t match to what was written: Prince’s friend had written him new script instead. The episode was canned because Prince refused the original writers script; it was too similar to Michael Jackson’s episode.
N7y0E TIL over 15 to 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' "Stranger Things" series, saying no one would be interested in a Sci-Fi horror that revolves around kid protagonists. One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.
66xW TIL there is a medical chart used to classify types of poop
X04YX TIL that Johann Pachelbel, German composer of the famous Canon in D, had a son Carl who lived and worked as an organist in Charleston, South Carolina.