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🧱 Berlin Woke Up to Barbed Wire. Nobody Saw…
Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.
■ TODAY’S LEAD STORYEast German workers began laying barbed wire across a sleeping city on August 13, 1961 — and by morning, Berlin was divided in a way that would last twenty-eight years.READ FULL STORY →
■ ALSO ON THIS DAYThe greatest urban center in the pre-Columbian Americas fell on August 13, 1521 — then was razed, buried, and built over with what is now Mexico City.READ MORE →
■ MORE FROM HISTORYBig Mama Thornton walked into a Los Angeles studio in 1952 and recorded “Hound Dog” — the song that Elvis Presley made famous four years later, while Thornton received $500 and no royalties.READ MORE →
■ DID YOU KNOW?
The average human body contains enough iron to make a nail approximately three inches long. The iron is almost entirely in the blood — specifically in hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen through the circulatory system. A person with anemia is, in the most literal sense, running low on the same element that holds buildings together.
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