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TIL Fatima. a city in Portugal is named after a kidnapped Muslim princess who fell in love with a Christian knight. married him and converted to Christianity then she changed her name,

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Wk1DX TIL Dolphins are born with mustaches (hair around upper lip). Mustach helps newborn dolphins locate and feel their mother for the first few days of nursing and falls off after a week or so because of a natural depilatory process.
BrjDe TIL that K2 has no local name: the British Great Trigonometrical Survey of India tried to use local names for mountains where possible, but discovered that K2 was so isolated that no one had a name for it
nWp9b TIL women who had their last kid after 33 had double the chance of living to 95 or older as opposed to those who had their last one by 29. According to a 2020 study, women who gave birth after 40 were four times more likely to live to be a 100 years old.
DQyg TIL that during WW2, American and Australian troops developed a hybrid version of their respective types of football. To make the game fair to both sides, players were awarded a mark after either a caught kick or a thrown pass. The game was known as Austus.
E1DM7 TIL of a woman named Olympe de Gouges who advocated for equal rights between men and women in revolutionary France. She was guillotined.