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TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called “guys”

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OGx8X TIL there are currently only about 24 blimps in existence, and half of them are used for advertising.
9nxr TIL some of the U.S.’s favorite craft breweries no longer technically brew “craft beer” - Founders, Ballast Point, Goose Island, Redhook, Elysian, Lagunitas and tons more kicked out of the craft beer category after acquisitions by big beer (aka Anheuser-Busch, Moslon, etc.)
nenVo TIL that Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance (seen at the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody movie) was voted the greatest live performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock in August 1969 came second, followed by the Sex Pistols in 1976.
KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
wL4b8 TIL the phenomenon of wind throb from an open car window is called Helmholtz resonance, and is the same thing occurring when you blow across an open bottle to produce a tone.