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5Y7o9 TIL The word “sinister” is a word English took from Latin meaning “left handed”
PYJ5w TIL that King Charles I, King of England, already taken prisoner, attempted to escape but was captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle in the Isle of Wight in 1647
jdgN TIL Seth MacFarlane was only 24 when he started Family Guy, becoming television’s youngest Executive Producer.
nWvYY TIL The lighter was invented before the match
wlEY TIL Charles Darwin suggested that the appendix may have been used for digesting leaves but, over the course of evolution, has degraded into nothing. This theory is supported by koala and horse appendixes which do just that.