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TIL there’s a pre Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac and it’s awesome

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wpNM TIL Ewen MacDonald was hanged in 1752 but regained consciousness after being taken to the dissection theatre. When the surgeon who was meant to dissect his body discovered the supposedly dead man sitting upright on the operating table, he promptly bludgeoned MacDonald to death with a mallet.
0rM TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.
4XYl6 TIL that English actor Gary Oldman hired a dialect coach to regain his English accent because he lost it from living in California for too long.
OGek6 TIL the ancient Egyptians named the Great Pyramid of Giza "Akhet-Khufu," which translates to "Horizon of Khufu."
NmM8 TIL for the film Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of “real actors,” such as Alan Rickman. As a result, Mewes memorized his, and every other character’s dialogue in the screenplay because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”.