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TIL babies in Nordic countries take naps outside even in freezing weather

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9w6m6 TIL that approximately 700 years before the Great Pyramids were built, there was a royal bloodline in Ireland, aka Atlantis
D1joP TIL about "The Doll Test", which found that given a choice between Black dolls and white dolls, most Black children preferred to play with white dolls and was later cited as a factor in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
v1WEx TIL that - led by two grandsons of Genghis Khan - the Mongol army invaded nearly half of Europe. Had the ruling Khan not drunkenly died on a hunting trip, they could have taken the entire continent.
g8My TIL Marvel created a new superhero called “Blue Ear” to encourage a young boy with a hearing impairment to wear his hearing aid.
LQkJV TIL That the Earth's current "North Star" will be replaced in ~1000 years by the star Gamma Cephei, because it can be seen with the naked-eye and be closer to our celestial pole than the current North star, Polaris.