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9oGG TIL that the “bubonic plague” was a specific way of dying from the plague wherein lymph nodes would swell into lumps called “bubos.” This is also the origin of bruises being called “boo-boos.”
eJ75 TIL the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” isn’t translatable into several other languages. In the French translation: “I’ll have to shit out a lot of science to get out of this.” In Russian, “Only science can pull me out of this shit”.
gJML TIL that Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist, stated “you can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” He was later shot and killed by a Klansman, but the civil rights movement lived on.