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TIL: According to an obscure medieval legend, the Countess Margaret of Henneberg, a Dutch noblewoman, was punished by God for insulting a poor beggar woman carrying twins and believing her to be an adulteress. The countess's punishment was to give birth to 365 minute children on Good Friday, 1276.

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