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TIL after winning three 1932 Olympic track medals and having success in basketball and baseball, Babe Didrikson faced false claims that she wasn’t truly a woman. To quiet the critics, she turned to the more traditionally feminine sport of golf—and went on to win 13 consecutive LPGA tournaments.

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6Eod7 TIL the first named European to discover America was Leif Erikson in the year 1000 near modern-day Newfoundland, but according to his own record when he first made landfall he rescued two unnamed shipwrecked men. This makes those two men the first known Europeans to ever make landfall in America
7rWKX TIL Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, was so fascinated by the imagined slang language he created, he compiled a dictionary of all its words. Thought to be lost, the dictionary of Burgesses' slang was rediscovered in 2017
xD81 TIL in 2002, Danish ornithologists reported that birds, especially Starlings, were imitating Nokia’s classic ring tone in their mating calls
OG6PL TIL about the white-throated sparrow, where male and female birds each exist in two forms: a white morph and a tan morph. Tan morphs only mate with white morphs, creating four different groups of birds that each act like a distinct 'sex' - tan males, tan females, white males and white females.
VMrVD TIL the Washington monument was constructed in 2 phases separated by over 2 decades, due to funding issues. The stones used in the 2nd phase was different from the one used earlier. Though they looked similar then, the stones have aged differently and the difference is clearly visible now.