Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Russian linguist and decipherer of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov always listed ...

TIL Russian linguist and decipherer of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov always listed his cat Asya as his co-author, but the editors always removed her. He always used a photo of him with Asya as the author photo, and was annoyed when the editors cropped her out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov
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