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VGRp TIL ‘you’ was plural but used for singular, not the reverse. It was used to show respect until the singular 'thou’ became kinda rude. This is why we say “you are” for both cases.
WGrL TIL when the Dutch discovered penguins for the first time in the 17th century, they literally called them “fat gooses”
XZY8 TIL there is a Japanese expression, ‘manaita no ueno koi’, meaning 'a carp laid on a chopping block’. It is used to describe a person who keeps their cool in the face of an imminent and definite danger, and derives from the carp’s uniquely calm disposition when it is about to be cut up.