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TIL after conquering China, by 1241 the Mongols were expanding their empire to the west, using Chinese rockets (self-propelled flying bombs) in battles across Eastern Europe. And with them came secret of black powder - the recipe was first written down around 1250 by English scholar Roger Bacon.

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8aorX TIL that in 1867, a shopkeeper named Lily Maxwell was accidentally placed on the voter register for a Manchester by-election. She became the first woman to vote in the UK, 50 years before women's suffrage.
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