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TIL If King Charles IV’s baby had a penis it would have prevented the “100 Years War”. Charles had been dead for 2 months. The Gender Reveal was bad for France... a girl. Baby Blanch didn’t have the goods so France and England fought about it from 1337 to 1453.

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