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TIL: Stevie Wonder was about to play at Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert when his synclavier hard disc went missing. He refused to play, so unknown Tracy Chapman hurried on stage to perform for a 2nd time that day. She sold 2 million albums and Fast Car went Top 10 worldwide after the concert.

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mjPM TIL that in the late 80s, a mass moral panic swept across the US where many daycare providers were accused of ritual Satanic sexual abuse, with dozens jailed based solely on children’s testimony, who were coached by psychologists.
GY9d1 TIL that dolphins get high off puffer fish by holding the fish in their mouths and passing it around between them, causing the fish to release defense toxins which are euphoric in low doses. After they get high, they let the puffer fish go.
kORbE TIL about "baseball rubbing mud". Invented by a third base coach for the Athletics and now in widespread and required use by the MLB it is harvested by a single man in denim cutoffs and disintegrating sneakers. It's source, a closely guarded secret, is located "somewhere" in the Delaware River.