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TIL The Mongol Invasion ended partly since Korea in charge of shipbuilding ran out of wood

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JVGv TIL that Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.
l7My1 TIL that Nikola Tesla, the inventor and engineer, had a photographic memory and could memorize entire books.
w7V1 TIL Alligators killed 3 people in the U.S in 2015, including a 22yr old burglar, and a 28yr old who’s final recorded words were “Fuck the alligators”
pY9BO TIL that Bugs Bunny got his name by accident in 1940 when a model sheet was hand-labelled "Bugs' Bunny" to indicate it was for animator Ben "Buggsy" Hardaway to work on. The possessive apostrophe was dropped when staff thought that was the rabbit's actual name - and it stuck.
4g5R TIL In the early nineties, actor Ving Rhames (aka Marcellus Wallace) met a homeless man who turned out to be his older brother who had been lost to his family since Vietnam