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TIL that because salt was so highly valued in the ancient world, the modern word for “salary” is derived from the latin word for salt.

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8e7E8 TIL Ted Kaczynski carried on working on pure mathematics from his cabin in Montana and he even submitted a type-written paper to a math journal in 1976 which he claimed proved an earlier posited solution
Ooj9e TIL Hitler commissioned special "Wound Badges of 20 July 1944" to those who were wounded in the failed assassination attempt with him as per the Resistance's Operation Valkyrie. Only 24 people were awarded such medals.
6exQ TIL that Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for it to be used in the role of Yorick in their production of Hamlet. David Tennant was the first person to use the skull in the role in 2008, over 25 years after Tchaikowsky’s death.
g76L TIL in the early 1980s, a British MP made serious allegations of paedophilia in the British Political classes and the dossier was “lost” by the Government.
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