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Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov, instrumental in deciphering Mayan script, could never convince his editors to co-credit his cat, but the Mexican government eventually included her in a statue (hexbear.net)
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picture source and where I heard the story (I did double check this btw)

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[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Mexico does a lot of lowkey based shit

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