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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.

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M7NbK TIL about Hakuho Sho, the greatest sumo wrestler ever, with 45 championships, 16 undefeated championships, and 1187 wins. He held the coveted rank of yokozuna for 14 years and has the highest top division win ratio (84.6%) out of anyone in the modern era. He retired in 2021.
mxxgY TIL "Médecins Sans Frontières" (MSF), also known as "Doctors Without Borders", is an international humanitarian NGO best known for its projects in developing countries affected by endemic diseases.It provided medical aid in over 70 countries and received the 'Nobel Peace Prize' in 1999.
b6EVj TIL Franklin Pierce, the 14th US president, believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, so much that he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
v1pOB TIL: The 1997 Albanian Civil War was precipitated by an economic crisis caused by the collapse of several enormous pyramid schemes which over 2/3 of the country's population had invested in.
1aoJV TIL Modern cars are designed to be essentially air-tight. This has been causing a lot of deaths in the past decade where children have suffocated after being in cars for hours. Never sleep in your car with the windows rolled up - the dash vents are insufficient at providing adequate oxygen exchange.