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TIL that the founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur, founded his massive empire after giving up on his original dreams: the reconquest of his tiny Ferghana homeland from Uzbek invaders. Saddened by a third defeat, Babur went to India to flee the Uzbeks, founding his empire in the process.

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