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a8Na9 TIL that Winston Churchill is the sole world leader to have received the Nobel Prize, not for peace, but for literature.
VjY0 TIL When Titanic was hit, none of the Engineers left till the very end, They stayed and kept the power on, So others could Escape.
dD0Z8 TIL In the 1500s, a priest named Diego de Landa asked a Maya scribe to produce an alphabet of his language and write a sentence. The sentence the scribe wrote was "Ma’ in k’áati’" (I don't want to). The sentence was deciphered in the late 1900s as Maya writing is syllabic, not alphabetic.
MeRpW TIL of Kathy Hobbs, a girl who had a premonition that she wouldn’t live to be 16. She reached the age and relaxed, making plans for her future. 3 months later, she was abducted and killed. She’d written letters to her family, dated 1 month before her birthday, telling them how much she loved them.
e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".