Our world is full of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book, all of these amazing. Tales are right there on display just waiting for us to explore. Welcome to the cabinet of curiosities. Southern chile is a miracle of nature, bordered by the b o, a river any andy's mountains, the zone of sir the southern zone runs along Chile's lower western coast. Its home to lakes is blue as the sky steaming, hot springs and dense rainfall. Yes, it's I D, like northern area is known to be well suited for raising livestock and cattle can often be seen grazing and green fields with snow captain mountains off in the distance. Like I said I Dilke, as for the human body

relation July is made up of people from all over many come from europe, including ITALY, germany and Spain. There is also an extensive indigenous population consisting of nine different groups, the largest being the mapuche ay, who lived there since six hundred bc. but they weren't the first. The prevailing theory among historians and archeologists has been that humans first came to the americas through the bearing straight roughly thirteen thousand five hundred years ago, following packs of big game like master, I bison they travel down through north america and spread out across canada. The united states and down into south america These early travelers were known as the clovis, and we have evidence of their presence by way of the spearheads they left behind. But the problem with any theory is that it can be easily challenged, which is exactly what happened in nineteen. Seventy five,

a veterinary student visiting chile was exploring an area known as monti verdi on the banks of the chintz. You walk be creek not far from the pacific ocean. Some local showed the student a bone, fragments they discovered after logging in the area had eroded much of the soil away. I thought it was a cow bone. The student, though, wasn't so sure after being tested and verified, the fragment was determined to be free, more unique than a simple collarbone. It belonged to a gum, for there are prehistoric animal bearing a strong resemblance to modern day elephants, but unrelated new. of the discovery made it back to american professor tom delay, who happened to be teaching at a university in chile. He had a feeling. There was something bigger brewing under the soil, so he and a team of archaeologists organised to dig and they find a lot more than just one bone.

Surprisingly, everything below the surface was preserved better than they had expected. The environment had flooded thousands of years ago, and the peat or decaying vegetation that fill the area had prevented bacteria from eating away at the artifacts, as they dug hearts. Both large and small began to appear little by little. The soil was brushed away and the remains of other animals saw sunlight for the first time. In millennia, large wooden posts from about a dozen huts were unearthed, as well as a footprint hides used for clothing and a piece of meat with dna still preserved inside. That was how scientists were able to tell the kind of game that had been hunted and consumed in the area, but the sites contents did into line with the current theory on how humans had migrated to Monteverde and other parts of the coast. The roughly twenty to thirty people who had lived there on that site, hadn't come through the bearing straight and worked.

way south to chile, they had travelled by boat down the west coast until finally, stopping at monteverde these early settlers built tools from rocks and clam shells they through In a way, other cultures could not well in. Wait, modern scientists and anthropologists couldn't conceive of because, of course, humans have always been resourceful and adaptive, sometimes taking the harder route for a greater path. Culture was old. The settlement in items found under the soil predate the mapuche aid in the area. By almost sixteen thousand years they predate the origin north american settlers by over a thousand their existence, turns every We thought we knew about human migration on its head. Who were these travellers and what happened to them? We may never know some curiosities, it seems have yet to be answered,

The. germany and near by austria have produced some of the most brilliant minds of all time. Albert Einstein, mathematician Carl, frederick, gus and composer wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are among the regions, most influential and revered individuals within their time on earth. They each made immeasurable contributions to science, math and the arts, and those contributions have gone on. Who inspire others to continue their work. However, some of the more intelligent folks from that part of europe did not go on too great a claim. They did not change the face of music or make earth shattering discoveries, but that did it mean they weren't extraordinary in their own right,

These people were able to capitalize on that intelligence and go far in life as scholars rather than creators. One Such scholar was John fully barrage. bore near near nuremberg in seventeen twenty one and seemed destined to lead a life dedicated to learning his father. A french protestant minister only spoke latin to him. His mother only spoke french. Their servants communicated only in high dutch. He spent. ty reading the bible, both the old testament and the new testament well reading is putting it lightly. He read them in greek. Then spent years translating them into latin and hebrew in fact, do Without bringing in his passion for learning, he was able to speak all of those languages fluently its translation work earned him recognition among his contemporaries, including angle, dictionary, author, doktor, Samuel Johnson, as well as the prolific writer and philosopher Voltaire. There wasn't a subject: John Felipe couldn't conquer

and that thirst for knowledge earned him a masters of arts when he was only fourteen years old, a prodigy. If there ever was one he'd lived, a life fuller, they must unfortunately porridge felipe suffered from a condition that had rendered his body. Frail though his mind only grew sharper with each passing day, those translations of the greek bible. He can to them when he was only eight years old, he was even acted as a life member of the berlin royal academy where he studied nautical longitude. However, the press of his numerous studies proved too much for his system to take and at nineteen years of age he passed away. The nature of his condition was never known. Philip was not the only young genius of the era. There was another just like him name christian heinrich heineken, also known as the infant scholar of lubeck. born the same year is John. Felipe Christian spoke, perfect german.

Only ten months of age, by the time he was one he was reading the tentative or the first five books of the Torah. He started reading the old and new testaments when he turned to, and by the time he turned three he'd finish them in latin, not unlike John Felipe a three years old, he wrote his own history of denmark, the king of denmark, vited him to read it before the courts, which he accepted graciously every one loved him charmed by his intelligence at such a young age and spread word of his talents all over europe. Became what some might call a minor celebrity christians family decided to do Europe with their son as their star attraction, it was around This time when his mother began to wean him off breastfeeding and christians health problems bubble to the surface ass, he gave up his mother's milk

He started eating more grains, unknowingly corrupting his tiny system christian suffered from celiac disease before anyone knew what it was without a proper diagnosis, he passed away at only four years old, a tragic end to an incredible little boy with limitless potential, but don't feel too bad christian saw his death coming true to his sharp wit. He predicted it would happen months before it finally did, but knowing him I wouldn't expect anything less. I hope you've enjoyed today's guided tour of the cabinet of curiosities, subscribe for free on apple podcasts or learn more about the show by visiting curiosities, podcast dot com. The show was created by me Erin monkey, in partnership with how stuff works I make another award winning show called lore witches upon cast book series and,

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