Today’s fun fact is about the first usage of the term “Underground Railroad”. The man who inspired the term was Tice Davids, a runaway slave from Kentucky. His former owner had assumed Tice had drowned when he swam across the Ohio River to freedom. Later, in an interview for the paper, the slave owner mentioned that if Tice had actually escaped, he must’ve taken “an underground railroad”. Thus, the term was coined, and the rest is history!