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TIL that sideburns was named after the man who made it famous; Ambrose Burnside

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loVZ5 TIL that "eye of newt" is just a term for mustard seeds and that many of the other witches ingredients from Macbeth are also just other normal things labeled as something more sinister.
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
Roj9 TIL you can buy biodegradable urns that will turn you into a tree when you die
ZKa4 TIL that a handful of people survived the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978 where over 900 people took their lives, including a hearing-impaired man that didn’t hear the announcements over loudspeaker, and an elderly woman who slept through the whole thing.
wLrLE TIL that the game “punch buggy” wasn’t a clever advertising scheme, it was just a game invented by a bored kid.