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TIL that no Danish monarch has been coronated since 1849

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YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.
nW0O9 TIL Dr. Benjamin Spock’s best selling childcare book was the first to promote prone sleeping for infants & continued to 9 years after it was shown to increased SIDS prevalence. It’s estimated over 60K infant deaths worldwide can be attributed to harmful prone sleeping recommendation.
GYM5Q TIL that the Corinth Canal's construction was started in the first century but abandoned and completed only in 1893
worRo TIL horses were introduced to the American South in 1630, and had made it to Canada by 1730
wow5P TIL that Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, who saw a market for adult dolls since most at the time represented infants. Barbie was redesigned from a doll she found in Germany that was depicted as a "working girl" and described as sassy, ambitious, and “a gold-digger, exhibitionist, and floozy."