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TIL Latin and Irish have no words for "yes" or "no"

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RV7j TIL someone survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket
Wk6k8 TIL about Liviu Librescu: a Romanian-born scientist, engineer, professor, teacher, and Holocaust survivor, who heroically held the door of his classroom closed during the Virginia Tech shootings sacrificing his life while the gunman continuously shot through the door, saving 22 of his 23 students.
VMGJQ TIL of the Interregnum period in Transjordan in 1920 where, for about a year, the region had no ruler or occupying power. Locals even wrote letters to nearby Sharif Hussein to send "one of his sons" to rule it.
xVMvw TIL Cincinnati Built a Subway System a Century Ago but It Wasn't Used
R5mL8 TIL that the ship used by scientology as a first headquarter was sunk by a train in 1980