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2022-06-10 21:18:00 A nearly preserved chariot that belonged to Pharaoh Thutmose IV.

It has its first exhibition at the new Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The carefully carved, once gilded panels depict a pharaoh defeating his enemies. Open / Comment

2022-06-10 17:18:00 The spiral staircases of medieval castles were built so that the ascent was clockwise.

This was done to give the tower defenders an advantage during hand-to-hand combat in case of a castle siege, as the hardest blow with the right hand could be made only from right to left, which was inaccessible to the attackers.

There is only one castle with a reverse twist, the Wallenstein Counts' castle, as most of the men in that family were left-handed. Open / Comment

2022-06-10 14:18:00 Purusaurus is one of the largest giant crocodiles known, perhaps even surpassing the size of Sarcosuchus.

It ruled undividedly in central South America during the Miocene period, 8 million years ago. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 21:18:00 1967. The last official duel in France.

The mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Deffer (facing us), and the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, René Ribier, dueled on swords. The reason for the duel was Deffer's retort during Ribierre's speech: Taisez-vous, abruti! (Shut up, you moron!) Deffer refused to apologize and so Ribierre challenged him to a duel.

The next day the presidential candidate was to be married and the mayor of Marseilles promised to spoil his wedding night. And so it happened. The 57-year-old Deffer stabbed Ribier twice with his sword, after which the duel was stopped. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:18:00 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has been reburied 17 times since his death, either because of tomb reconstruction or for security reasons.

On six occasions his coffin was opened. Only in 1901, 36 years after his death, did Lincoln's body find final rest. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 14:18:00 Twelve-year-old Omayra Sanchez was trapped in the ruins caused by the eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruz. After sixty hours of being trapped there, she lost consciousness and died. Armero, Colombia. November 16, 1985. Open / Comment

2022-06-08 21:18:00 The Polish athlete Stanislawa Walasiewicz won the 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics, setting a world record.

Only after her death in 1980 was it discovered during an autopsy that she was male (by genitalia), although she possessed both male and female chromosome pairs. Open / Comment

2022-06-08 17:18:00 For a long time, it was believed that ancient Greek sculptures made of white marble were originally colorless. However, studies have shown that the statues were painted in a wide range of colors, which over time disappeared under prolonged exposure to light and air. Open / Comment

2022-06-08 13:26:11 Ballot paper during the referendum in Austria on anschluss with Germany, March 13, 1938. "Do you approve of the reunification of Austria with the German Reich?" Yes - big circle, No - small circle. Open / Comment

2022-06-07 21:18:03 A woman tries to go down through the window of a house in the eastern sector of Berlin to a street in the western sector. In the window you can see members of the East German secret service trying to drag her back, "into socialism," to the 1960s. Open / Comment