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TIL Gengis Khan was worth roughly the equivalent of $130 Trillion USD.

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KWla TIL that the Canine Genome project revealed that the Pekingese, Shiba Inu, Shih Tzu & Basengi are among the ancient breeds least genetically diverged from Gray Wolves
aJNJ TIL US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
R5KE7 TIL that when Indianapolis attempted to relocate Greenlawn Cemetery in 1899, they discovered that most of the graves had been robbed. The bodies were likely stolen for use as dissection subjects at local medical schools.
QO8a TIL that while North and South America are technically connected by land, there is a stretch of swamp and forest called the Darién Gap where there are no roads, making it impossible to traverse between the two continents by car
9YOXB TIL that Jennings Lang, the guy behind the 1970's Airport movies, had an affair with actress Joan Bennett. When her husband found out in 1951 he fired a gun in to his testicles.