Miscellaneous Factoids (Part 8)

1. Did you know Alexander Graham Bell's initial preference was for "Ahoy" for a greeting when using the phone ? (Thomas Edison suggested the greeting "Hello!" in a letter to a telegraph company president in 1877, recommending it for telephone use. While the word existed, it was previously used to attract attention or express surprise, and Edison's suggestion helped popularize it as a standard greeting.)

2. Did you know in some internal or informal contexts, the peanut butter center of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is referred to as the "plug" ?

3. Did you know the modern Bundt cake was invented in the United States in 1950 by H. David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware, who created the distinctive ring-shaped pan at the request of Jewish women in Minneapolis seeking a replica of European kugelhopf pans ?

4. Did you know the most famous case of a baseball player dying from a game injury is Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, who was struck in the head by a pitch and died the next day on August 17, 1920 ? (He remains the only player to die directly from an injury received during a Major League Baseball game.)