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TIL - Nobel Peace Prize nominees included Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini

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9YAVm TIL the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria wasn’t a great loss of historical texts. The majority of the library’s scrolls had been copied for libraries in Persia, Byzantium, and Iraq; Its believed the study of these texts helped form universities through Europe in the Early Middle Ages
v1wAL TIL that there was a persistent myth that a race of pygmy humans lived in Tennessee. In reality, these were normal bones of Native Americans secondarily buried in short stone coffins.
e0N7J TIL when Elton John proposed marriage to sound technician Renate Blauel who was a member of his entourage on a 1983 Australian concert tour, she accepted and the engagement was announced the following day. The wedding took place three days later
AlvB TIL Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin, passed on the project to another developer in 2010 and has since disappeared. No one knows who he is or where he went.
QJg1k TIL that an activist named Bruno Manser went into the jungles of Borneo in the 1980s and became a respected elder in the Penan tribe, then left the tribe and did hunger strikes outside many multinational corporations responsible for stealing their land.