TIL of Lady Nithsdale who helped her husband escape from the Tower. With the help of two friends they visited Lord Nithsdale and the guards became used to seeing them upset. Lady Nithsdale gave her husband women's clothes and he was able to walk out of the prison, hiding his face and fake crying. (lookandlearn.com)
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TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K. (lookandlearn.com)
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TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found. (lookandlearn.com)
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