Before we go, here’s your random trivia of the day:
Why do we call people “guys?”
The term, it turns out, comes from Guy Fawkes, a 17th-century mustachioed member of a group of conspirators who wanted to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. Fawkes was caught in the basement of Parliament with enough gunpowder to blow the place sky high.
The term “guy” became a way to describe creepy people. Overtime, it became a generic term for men – though today, it is often used as gender-neutral slang.
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