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TIL about lithopedions : stone children - Unborn calcified foetuses

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81lX TIL during 1936 Berlin Olympic games, the Nazis ridiculed the US for relying on “non-human black auxiliaries.” American black athlete Jesse Owens went on to win 4 gold medals and beat a German at Long Jump in front of Hitler. Four years after Owens’ death, a street in Berlin was renamed after him.
LQd0r TIL, Today in history - Arauco War: A series of coordinated Mapuche attacks took place against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.
16y98 TIL in 1314 the Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal that saw the daughters-in-law of Philip IV accused of adultery, leading to their imprisonments & executions of their lovers. The severe shock may have contributed to Philip’s death months later & contributed to the start of the Hundred Years War
DJKg TIL that Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric had a daughter in 1902, one year before they were married. The existence of “Lieserl” was concealed and only discovered in 1986. Einstein is believed to have never met her, what happened to her is a mystery.
Rk9a TIL 99% of people in Estonia have blue eyes