TIL > London hit 90% literacy around 1750 Still though, if you look at today, there's plenty of people who can read, but don't. You'll find lots of modern peo

TIL > London hit 90% literacy around 1750 Still though, if you look at today, there's plenty of people who can read, but don't. You'll find lots of modern people who don't know anything about what happened in history, what the political themes are, and so on.