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TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason we call guys “guys”. From the tradition of burning hideous effigies of him on 5 November, the word came to mean “ugly man”, and then just “man”

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GYN0G TIL Rats have empathy. When offered the choice of a tempting chocolate treat, or rescuing a drowning rat, they chose to rescue the drowning rat.
b9op TIL “Backpfeifengesicht” is a German term for a face that badly needs a punch
418o TIL of King Ingjald who, in honor of his ascension to the throne, invited the neighboring kings to a feast then vowed to enlarge his kingdom by half or else die. When the other leaders were drunk, Ingjald burned down the building and claimed their domains for himself, fulfilling his vow overnight.
ov0Y TIL that in 1940s Russians performed experiments on animal organs and tissues and they actually succeeded to bring back to life a severed head of a dog. The dogs` head reacts to light, smell and sound and it even tries to bark!
Y7g5d TIL until 2020 there were only two factories producing the lacquer (acetate) discs used as masters to produce vinyl records... and then one of them burned down, leaving only a factory in Japan producing all masters in the world.