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TIL that “cat got your tongue” originates from Ancient Egypt where they cut the tongue for punishing blasphemy and fed to cats

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16WZ4 TIL: William Daniels (Mr. Feeney in Boy Meets World) is the voice of K.I.T.T. the car in the 80s series Knightrider.
RLYl TIL the Scottish town of Dull has formed a “trinity of tedium” with the towns of Boring (USA) and Bland (Australia)
lbNa TIL that in 2015, two day care employees in New Jersey were imprisoned for running a toddler fight club among a dozen boys and girls aged 4-6
neKLr TIL that Curly from the Three Stooges would often forget his lines and when that happened would retort to improvising noises which is how we got the phrase NYUK, NYUK, NYUK
Ypdxx TIL of the 1862 explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal, where almost all of the 78 workers that died from the massive set of explosions, were girls and young women, who replaced young boys/men who flouted common-sense safety precautions.