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TIL Medal of Honor recipient Edward Carter could speak five languages, fought in his first war at 15, and joined the the Spanish Civil War to fight fascists at 20 before eventually fighting in WW2. Despite his heroism in combat, he and all other black awardees would not be recognized until 1997.

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b9wlj TIL about Judith Catchpole, a young maidservant in the colony of Maryland, who was tried in 1656 for witchcraft and killing her newborn child. The judge summoned an all-female jury, who determined that Judith did not kill her child - in fact, there were no signs that Judith had even been pregnant.
x6Mgg TIL that since 2018 Morocco has a high-speed rail line connecting Tangier and Casablanca with a train that travels up to 320 km/h (199 mph).
OD6a TIL There are 6 mathematical problems still unsolved to this day. A correct solution to any one of the 6 will make you $1,000,000 richer. The 6 problems are often referred to as ‘The Millennium Prize Problems’.
KOj7w TIL Voltaire's joke that the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" was mostly true. The center of the Church at the time was actually the Vatican, the HRE's people were mostly Germanic and not Roman, and the nation was never truly unified at any point in its history.
NXQ41 TIL that former French general and president Charles de Gaulle’s eldest son, Phillippe de Gaulle, who served in the French Navy during WW2 and eventually rose to the rank of admiral, passad away yesterday at the age of 102.