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TIL that a Guinness beer has only 10 more calories than a Bud Light

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m1R0o TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons-in-law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations
KoRR TIL: There was one survivor at the Battle of Little Bighorn. A horse named “Comanche” who was treated as a war veteran and never ridden again out of respect.
WVxN TIl- there was a 18 year old girl who, asked 911 if she could shoot an intruder, then shot him dead while on the phone.
M7xNW TIL factory workers were told to clean the paintbrushes on their lips while painting the self-luminating radioactive radium dials on watches in the 1920s.
Gj51 TIL that lie detectors aren’t reliable, and the creator of the polygraph himself called the machine a “Frankenstein’s Monster” due to law enforcements use of it.